Assessing adaptive capacity within regional climate change vulnerability studies-an Alpine example

Natural Hazards

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1059-1073

  Schneiderbauer, Stefan ^a   Pedoth, Lydia ^a   Zhang, Danyang ^a   Zebisch, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Alpine region; Climate change; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STAKEHOLDER; VULNERABILITY;

ALTO ADIGE; ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE;

EID: 84879254431     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9919-0     Document Type: Article

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