Emerging lessons from the climate change think tank

Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-270

  Cartwright, Anton ^a   Parnell, Susan ^a   Oelofse, Gregg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b City of Cape Town   (South Africa)

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EID: 84917323320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203112656     Document Type: Chapter

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