Urban climate and adaptation strategies

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 486-492

  Larsen, Larissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MICROCLIMATE; NEIGHBORHOOD; ROAD; ROOF; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN CLIMATE;

EID: 84946900514     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/150103     Document Type: Review

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