Situating adaptation: how governance challenges and perceptions of uncertainty influence adaptation in the Rocky Mountains

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 669-682

  Wyborn, Carina ^a   Yung, Laurie ^a   Murphy, Daniel ^b   Williams, Daniel R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptation pathways; Governance; Scale; Uncertainty; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939890832     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0663-3     Document Type: Article

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