Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale

Climatic Change

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 203-209

  Toole, Stephanie ^a   Klocker, Natascha ^a   Head, Lesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEXITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; EXTREME EVENT; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84959121609     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1577-x     Document Type: Article

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