Planning for Climatic Extremes and Variability: A Review of Swedish Municipalities’ Adaptation Responses

Climate change poses a serious challenge to sustainable urban development worldwide. In Sweden, climate change work at the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners’ “adaptation turn” is recent and still ongoing. This paper presents a m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christine Wamsler, Ebba Brink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-03-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/3/1359