Adaptation and transformation

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 113-127

  Pelling, Mark ^a   O’Brien, Karen ^b   Matyas, David ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; DECISION MAKERS; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; POLITICAL DECISION; RESEARCH AGENDA; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84951569753     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1303-0     Document Type: Article

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