Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 251-265

  Gillard, Ross ^a   Gouldson, Andrew ^a   Paavola, Jouni ^a   Van Alstine, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGES; SOCIAL THEORY; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 84958543005     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.384     Document Type: Article

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