Making headway in climate policy mainstreaming and ecosystem-based adaptation: two pioneering countries, different pathways, one goal

Climatic Change

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 71-87

  Wamsler, Christine ^a   Pauleit, Stephan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; INTEGRATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CLIMATE POLICY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; MUNICIPAL PLANNING; PLANNING PROCESS; SUSTAINABLE PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MITIGATION; PLANNING PROCESS; RESEARCH WORK; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GERMANY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84963762689     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1660-y     Document Type: Article

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