Power and politics of social–ecological regime shifts in the Chilika lagoon, India and Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 325-339

  Nayak, Prateep Kumar ^a   Armitage, Derek ^a   Andrachuk, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Coastal marine; Environment; Governance; Politics; Power; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956656856     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0775-4     Document Type: Article

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