Barriers and guidelines for public policies on climate change adaptation: A missed opportunity of scientific knowledge-brokerage

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Clar, Christoph ^a   Prutsch, Andrea ^a   Steurer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptation barriers; Adaptation guidebooks; Adaptation guidelines; Adaptation policies; Climate change adaptation; Scientific knowledge brokerage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GUIDELINE; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84876091470     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.12013     Document Type: Article

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