Incorporation of Potential Climate Change Impacts into Local Disaster Risk Management in Costa Rica

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Hori, Tsuneki ^a   Shaw, Rajib ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

climate change adaptation; Costa Rica; disaster risk management; local development planning; policy integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900802333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1094     Document Type: Article

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