Adaptation or manipulation? unpacking climate change response strategies

Ecology and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Thomsen, Dana C ^a   Smith, Timothy F ^a   Keys, Noni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Learning; Manipulation; Path dependency; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; LEARNING; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84987696294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-04953-170320     Document Type: Article

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