Planning adaptation based on local actors’ knowledge and participation: a climate governance experiment

Climate Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 458-474

  Cloutier, Geneviève ^a   Joerin, Florent ^a,b   Dubois, Catherine ^a   Labarthe, Martial ^a   Legay, Christelle ^a   Viens, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

adaptation; local knowledge; participation; perceptions; stakeholders; urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928797077     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2014.937388     Document Type: Article

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