Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: The Importance of Framing

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 280-293

  McEvoy, Darryn ^a   Fünfgeld, Hartmut ^a   Bosomworth, Karyn ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptation planning; climate change; framing; institutions; narratives

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; POLICY MAKING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84879541169     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2013.787710     Document Type: Article

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