Forestry professionals’ perceptions of climate change, impacts and adaptation strategies for forests in south-west Germany

Climatic Change

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 273-286

  Yousefpour, Rasoul ^a,b   Hanewinkel, Marc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; RISK PERCEPTION; SURVEYS; TIMBER;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; FORESTRY PROFESSIONAL; IMPACTS AND ADAPTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84939933429     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1330-5     Document Type: Article

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