Adaptation in Practice: How Managers of Nature Conservation Areas in Eastern England are Responding to Climate Change

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 700-719

  Macgregor, Nicholas A ^a   van Dijk, Nikki ^b  

^a NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climate change adaptation; Nature conservation; Nature reserves; Protected areas; Resilience; Transformative adaptation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; MANAGERS; SURVEYS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; NATURE RESERVES; PROTECTED AREAS; RESILIENCE; TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NATIONAL PARK; NEST PREDATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSIBILITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; PROCEDURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84919329824     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0254-6     Document Type: Article

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