Sustainable tourism, climate change and sea level rise adaptation policies in Barbados

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-57

  Mycoo, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Barbados; Climate change adaptation; Climate change policy reform; Small island developing States; Sustainable tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894241694     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.12033     Document Type: Article

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