The Gathering Storm: Managing adaptation to environmental change in coastal communities and small islands

Sustainability Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-489

  Lane, Daniel ^a   Mercer Clarke, Colleen ^a   Forbes, Donald L ^b   Watson, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Coastal communities; Small islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879788113     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-013-0213-9     Document Type: Article

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