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REVIEW ARTICLE

Community-based adaptation (CBA): adding conceptual clarity to the approach, and establishing its principles and challenges

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Pages 577-589 | Received 13 Dec 2015, Accepted 11 Apr 2017, Published online: 09 Oct 2017

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