Journal article
An evolutionary approach to adaptive capacity assessment: A case study of Soufriere, Saint Lucia
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This paper assesses the capacity of Soufriere, Saint Lucia to adapt to climate change. A community-based vulnerability assessment was conducted that employed semistructured interviews with community members. The results were analysed using the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework, which characterises adaptive capacity based on five elements: asset base; institutions and entitlements; knowledge and information; innovation; and flexible forward-looking decision-making and governance. Bey...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 3.2MB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.3390/su8030228
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Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Sustainability Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 228
- Publication date:
- 2016-03-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-02-18
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- ISSN:
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2071-1050
- Source identifiers:
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605645
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- pubs:605645
- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Wojcik and Hogarth
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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