Climate change and ontological politics in the Dutch Delta

Climatic Change

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 433-444

  Zegwaard, Arjen ^a,b   Petersen, Arthur C ^b,c   Wester, Philippus ^a,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DECISION MAKING; FLOODS; ONTOLOGY;

BLUE GREEN ALGAE; NETHERLANDS; TAKE-ALL; UNCERTAIN CLIMATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DECISION MAKING; DELTA; FLOOD; KNOWLEDGE; LAKE; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS;

NETHERLANDS;

CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 84942368867     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1259-0     Document Type: Article

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