Transforming toward or away from sustainability? How conflicting interests and aspirations influence local adaptation

The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 118-139

  Eriksen, Siri ^a   Selboe, Elin ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; REDUCING EMISSIONS; SOCIETAL SYSTEMS; VALUES AND BELIEFS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84954306290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139149389.008     Document Type: Chapter

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