Climate change vulnerability assessment of the urban forest in three Canadian cities

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 531-543

  Ordonez C ^a   Duinker, P N ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; URBAN CLIMATES; URBAN COMMUNITY; URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRIORITIZATION; TREE; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN FORESTRY; VULNERABILITY;

CANADA;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84937523673     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1394-2     Document Type: Article

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