Adaptation policies to increase terrestrial ecosystem resilience: potential utility of a multicriteria approach

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 331-354

  de Bremond, Ariane ^a,b   Engle, Nathan L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Joint Global Change Research Institute   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation policy; Development and climate change; Ecosystem resilience; Integrated decision making; Multi criteria analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892909446     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-014-9541-z     Document Type: Article

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