Urban planning lock-in: implications for the realization of adaptive options towards climate change risks

Water International

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 884-900

  Hetz, Karen ^a,b   Bruns, Antje ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

adaptation; flood risk; global south; informal growth; Johannesburg; path dependency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908360800     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2014.962679     Document Type: Article

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