Overcoming cross-scale challenges to climate change adaptation for local government: A focus on Australia

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-283

  Mukheibir, Pierre ^a   Kuruppu, Natasha ^a   Gero, Anna ^a   Herriman, Jade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; COLLABORATIVE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL LEVEL; SHAPE ADAPTATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; RESEARCH;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84887618082     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0880-7     Document Type: Article

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