Using qualitative scenarios to understand regional environmental change in the Canadian North

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1095-1108

  Wesche, Sonia D ^a   Armitage, Derek R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Community based research; Environmental change; Indigenous knowledge; Knowledge co production; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900853719     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0537-0     Document Type: Article

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