Promoting adaptation success in natural resource management through decision support: Lessons from the great plains and Rocky mountain regions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 170-185

  Dilling, Lisa ^a   Romsdahl, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

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EID: 84921307677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203593882     Document Type: Chapter

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