Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 605-620

  Ziervogel, Gina ^a   New, Mark ^a   Archer van Garderen, Emma ^b   Midgley, Guy ^c   Taylor, Anna ^a   Hamann, Ralph ^d   Stuart Hill, Sabine ^e   Myers, Jonny ^a   Warburton, Michele ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EARTH (PLANET);

ADAPTATION SCENARIOS; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84906253269     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.295     Document Type: Article

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