Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature

2013/05/08 by Thomas J. Bassett, Charles Fogelman · 393 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Adaptation (eye) #Adaptive capacity #Climate Change and Geoengineering #Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration #Climate change #Climate change impacts on agriculture #Computer science #Conceptualization #Ecology #Economics #Environmental ethics #Environmental resource management #Hazard #Law #Political science #Politics #Positive economics #Psychological resilience #Psychology #Social psychology #Sociology #Transformative learning #Vulnerability (computing)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.010

published in Geoforum 48, 42-53 (Elsevier BV)

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