Perceptions of Risk and Limits to Climate Change Adaptation: Case Studies of Two Swedish Urban Regions

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 321-334

  Simonsson, Louise ^a   Swartling, Åsa Gerger ^b   André, Karin ^a   Wallgren, Oskar ^b   Klein, Richard J T ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptation constraints; Adaptive capacity; Climate change vulnerability; Climate risk; Gothenburg; Participatory methods; Risk perception; Stakeholder analysis; Stockholm; Sweden; Urban regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034399242     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_23     Document Type: Chapter

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