Agricultural policy informed by farmers’ adaptation experience to climate change in Veneto, Italy

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 245-258

  Bonzanigo, Laura ^a,b   Bojovic, Dragana ^b   Maziotis, Alexandros ^c   Giupponi, Carlo ^a,b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous and planned adaptation; eParticipation; Multinomial probit model; Rural development plan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953371258     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0750-5     Document Type: Article

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