Commentary: Climate change adaptive management in the Great Lakes

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 578-580

  Abdel Fattah, Sommer ^a   Krantzberg, Gail ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Great Lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907699522     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2014.05.007     Document Type: Note

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