Societal response to challenges of global change and human sustainable development

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3161-3168

  Xu, GuanHua ^a   Ge, QuanSheng ^b   Gong, Peng ^c   Fang, XiuQi ^d   Cheng, BangBo ^b   He, Bin ^d   Luo, Yong ^c   Xu, Bing ^c,d  

^a MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

development opportunity; principle for mitigation and adaptation; response strategy; uncertainty in understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883453654     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5947-3     Document Type: Article

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