Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 523-533

  Eriksen, Siri H ^a   Nightingale, Andrea J ^a,b   Eakin, Hallie ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authority; Climate change adaptation; Knowledges; Politics; Power; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; PLANNING THEORY; POLITICAL POWER; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL THEORY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84959548279     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.014     Document Type: Article

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