Methodological choices in solution-oriented adaptation research: a diagnostic framework

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 7-20

  Hinkel, Jochen ^a   Bisaro, Alexander ^a  

^a Adaptation and Social Learning   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Behavioural analysis; Climate change; Climate risk; Decision analysis; Impacts; Institutional analysis; Methodological choices; Methodology; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953269953     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0682-0     Document Type: Article

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