Is education a key to reducing vulnerability to natural disasters and hence unavoidable climate change?

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Muttarak, Raya ^a   Lutz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Differential vulnerability; Education; Human capital; Natural disasters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897492970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06476-190142     Document Type: Editorial

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