Social-ecological innovation: adaptive responses to urban environmental conditions

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1063-1082

  Dennis, Matthew ^a   Armitage, Richard P ^a   James, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Environmental governance; Resilience; Social ecological systems; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962023268     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-016-0551-3     Document Type: Article

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