Adaptive Capacity: Tensions across Scales

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-192

  Hill, Margot ^a   Engle, Nathan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b AAAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Capacity Indicators; Case Studies; Climate Change Adaptation; Water Governance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84879458151     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1610     Document Type: Article

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