Taking stock of community-based climate-change adaptation projects in the Pacific

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 398-405

  Mcnamara, Karen Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate finance; Community ownership; Local environmental knowledge; Pacific

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCE; KNOWLEDGE; OWNERSHIP; SUSTAINABILITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 84888143079     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apv.12033     Document Type: Article

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