Overview: Climate Change Adaptation in the Urban Environment

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 281-288

  Wilbanks, Thomas J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptation research; Cities; Climate adaptation; Climate change; IAV; Local adaptation; Urban communities; Urban development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052402006     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_20     Document Type: Chapter

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