Governance fit for climate change in a Caribbean coastal-marine context

Marine Policy

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 486-498

  Pittman, Jeremy ^a   Armitage, Derek ^a   Alexander, Steven ^a   Campbell, Donovan ^b   Alleyne, Marium ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CARIBSAVE Partnership   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Adaptive governance; Coastal marine social ecological systems; Governance fit; Institutional adaptive capacity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MARINE POLICY;

EID: 84910065174     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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