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13 - From Informant to Actor to Leader

Social-Ecological Inventories as a Catalyst for Leadership Development in Participatory Community Climate Change Adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

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Bradley May
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Karen O'Brien  and
Elin Selboe
Karen O'Brien
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Elin Selboe
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change , pp. 230 - 251
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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