Translating the global climate change discourse to the local: An analysis of Dutch storylines on adaptation

Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer: International Studies on Contextual Water Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 207-222

  van den Berg, Maya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84900414554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203102992     Document Type: Chapter

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