Perspectives on Adaptation to Climate Change in Europe

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 51-68

  Isoard, Stéphane ^a  

^a EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Costs; Europe; European Union; Human and natural systems; Impacts; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900460060     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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