Advancing climate compatible development: Lessons from southern Africa

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 713-725

  Stringer, Lindsay C ^a   Dougill, Andrew J ^a   Dyer, Jen C ^a   Vincent, Katharine ^b,c   Fritzsche, Florian ^d   Leventon, Julia ^a   Falcão, Mario Paulo ^e   Manyakaidze, Pascal ^f   Syampungani, Stephen ^g   Powell, Philip ⁱ   Kalaba, Gabriel ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty) Ltd   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d GIZ Botswana   (Botswana)

^e EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^f Shurugwi Partners CBO   (Zimbabwe)

^g Lulea University of Technology   (Zambia)

^h University of Lubumbashi   (Congo)

ⁱ Ecolivelihoods Apricot Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Community based development; Mitigation; Multi sector approaches; Policy; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897020485     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0533-4     Document Type: Article

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