The local governance of climate change: New tools to respond to old limitations in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Local Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 738-751

  Luque, Andres ^a   Edwards, Gareth A S ^a   Lalande, Christophe ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Nairobi   (Kenya)

Author keywords

climate change adaptation; Esmeraldas; informality; institutional capacity; local governance; poverty; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PLANNING; MITIGATION; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN PLANNING; VULNERABILITY;

ECUADOR; ESMERALDAS;

EID: 84880790559     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2012.716414     Document Type: Article

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