Autonomous household responses and urban governance capacity building for climate change adaptation: Georgetown, Guyana

Urban Climate

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-154

  Mycoo, Michelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation policies; Flood risk reduction; Low elevation coastal cities; Urban governance; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027957456     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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