Delivering climate services: Organizational strategies and approaches for producing useful climate-science information

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-26

  McNie, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 84874282083     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-11-00034.1     Document Type: Article

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