Identifying trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and development in community responses to climate and socio-economic stresses: Evidence from Zanzibar, Tanzania

Applied Geography

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-121

  Suckall, Natalie ^a   Tompkins, Emma ^a,b   Stringer, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Development; DPSIR; Mitigation; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COPING STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MITIGATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TRADE-OFF;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

EID: 84889664059     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.11.005     Document Type: Article

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