Canada's Regional Adaptation Collaboratives and Adaptation Platform: The importance of scaling up and scaling down climate change governance experiments

Climate Services

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-60

  Wellstead, Adam ^a   Howlett, Michael ^b,c   Nair, Sreeja ^b   Rayner, Jeremy ^d  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Climate adaptation; Governance; Policy experimentation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; REGIONAL POLICY;

CANADA;

EID: 85000461170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2016.11.001     Document Type: Article

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