Adaptive Governance, Uncertainty, and Risk: Policy Framing and Responses to Climate Change, Drought, and Flood

Risk Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 339-356

  Hurlbert, Margot ^a,b   Gupta, Joyeeta ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change policy; Climate change uncertainty; Policy framing

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DROUGHT; FLOODS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; POLICY FRAMINGS; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS; UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; FLOOD; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER BASIN;

ARGENTINA; CANADA; CHILE;

AGRICULTURE; ARGENTINA; CANADA; CHILE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLOODING; HUMAN; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

AGRICULTURE; ARGENTINA; CANADA; CHILE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; FLOODS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK; RIVERS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84959175799     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12510     Document Type: Article

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