Governance scenarios for addressing water conflicts and climate change impacts

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-196

  Kuzdas, Christopher ^a,b   Wiek, Arnim ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Alternatives; Conflict mitigation; Latin america; Participation; Scenario planning; Water governance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXPERIMENTATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; LIFESTYLE; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WELLBEING; WORKSHOP;

EID: 84904512184     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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