Limits to Climate Change Adaptation: Case Study of the Australian Alps

Geographical Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-25

  Morrison, Clare ^a   Pickering, Catherine ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Economics; Society; Thresholds; Tourism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ALPS;

EID: 84874219283     PISSN: 17455863     EISSN: 17455871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00758.x     Document Type: Article

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