On the nature of barriers to climate change adaptation

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1119-1129

  Biesbroek, G Robbert ^a   Klostermann, Judith E M ^a   Termeer, Catrien J A M ^a   Kabat, Pavel ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Barriers to adaptation; Climate change adaptation; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884701238     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0421-y     Document Type: Article

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