Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 349-362

  Oberlack, Christoph ^a   Eisenack, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archetypes; Barriers to climate adaptation; International cooperation; Municipal public sector; Urban poor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894341511     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.016     Document Type: Article

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