Moving beyond the conceptual: Specificity in regional climate change adaptation actions for biodiversity in South East Queensland, Australia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 435-447

  Shoo, Luke P ^a   O'Mara, Julian ^a   Perhans, Karin ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Runting, Rebecca K ^a   Schmidt, Susanne ^a   Traill, Lochran W ^a   Weber, Lui C ^a   Wilson, Kerrie A ^a   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actions; Adaptation; Conservation; Evidence; Threats

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897027809     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0385-3     Document Type: Article

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