Building adaptive capacity in South East Queensland, Australia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 501-512

  Keys, Noni ^a   Bussey, Marcus ^a   Thomsen, Dana C ^a   Lynam, Timothy ^b   Smith, Timothy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Bayesian Belief Networks; Climate change; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897028769     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0394-2     Document Type: Article

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