Institutions as key element to successful climate adaptation processes: Results from the San Francisco Bay Area

Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 97-113

  Ekstrom, Julia A ^a   Moser, Susanne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 84921281178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203593882     Document Type: Chapter

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