From federal to city mitigation and adaptation: Climate change policy in Mexico City

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 969-996

  Sosa Rodriguez, Fabiola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Advances; Challenges; Climate change policy; Climate scenarios; Federal and city scale; Mexico; Mexico City; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MITIGATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO CITY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84907067899     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-013-9455-1     Document Type: Article

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