Assessing institutional capacities to adapt to climate change: Integrating psychological dimensions in the adaptive capacity wheel

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3369-3384

  Grothmann, T ^a   Grecksch, K ^a   Winges, M ^a   Siebenhuner B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

GERMANY;

EID: 84891084283     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-3369-2013     Document Type: Article

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