A socio-ecological approach for identifying and contextualising spatial ecosystem-based adaptation priorities at the sub-national level

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Bourne, Amanda ^a   Holness, Stephen ^b   Holden, Petra ^a,c   Scorgie, Sarshen ^a   Donatti, Camila I ^d   Midgley, Guy ^e  

^a SouthSouthNorth Project   (South Africa)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; SOUTH AFRICA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84973449333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155235     Document Type: Article

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