A Framework for Evaluating Local Adaptive Capacity to Health Impacts of Climate Change: Use of Kenya&rsquo;s County-Level Integrated Development Plans

Megan Kowalcyk; Samuel Dorevitch

doi:10.5334/aogh.4266

A Framework for Evaluating Local Adaptive Capacity to Health Impacts of Climate Change: Use of Kenya’s County-Level Integrated Development Plans

Annals of Global Health

Volume 90 (2024): Issue 1

By: Megan Kowalcyk and Samuel Dorevitch

Open Access

|Feb 2024

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