Assessing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in European Regions

European Climate Vulnerabilities and Adaptation: A Spatial Planning Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 113-130

  Juhola, Sirkku ^a   Peltonen, Lasse ^b   Niemi, Petteri ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Europe; Mitigation; Mitigative capacity; Regions; Response capacity

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; MITIGATION; MITIGATIVE CAPACITY; REGIONS; RESPONSE CAPACITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84988851390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118474822.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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