Changing social contracts in climate-change adaptation

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 330-333

  Adger, W Neil ^a   Quinn, Tara ^b   Lorenzoni, Irene ^b   Murphy, Conor ^c   Sweeney, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CIVIL SOCIETY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOODING; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PERCEPTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875718165     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1751     Document Type: Article

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