Communicating climate change adaptation. State of the art and lessons learned from ten OECD Countries

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-39

  Wirth, Veronika ^b   Prutsch, Andrea ^a   Grothmann, Torsten ^c  

^a Department of Health and Environment ^*  (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Behaviour change; Climate change; Communication; Good practise; OECD; Success factors; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity; Vulnerability reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898477141     PISSN: 09405550     EISSN: 26255413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14512/gaia.23.1.9     Document Type: Article

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