Human responses to climate change: Flooding experiences in the Netherlands

The Social and Behavioural Aspects of Climate Change: Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 157-176

  Zaalberg, Ruud ^a   Midden, Cees J H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84893919129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781351278768     Document Type: Chapter

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