Overcoming barriers during the co-production of climate information for decision-making

Climate Risk Management

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-49

  Briley, Laura ^a   Brown, Daniel ^a   Kalafatis, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary organization; Climate change adaptation; Decision support; Information usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944180011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22120963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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