Impacts of climate variability on East African pastoralists: Linking social science and remote sensing

Climate Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-172

  Galvin, Kathleen A ^a   Boone, Randall B ^a   Smith, Nicole M ^a   Lynn, Stacy J ^a  

^a Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; East Africa; Pastoralists; Remote sensing; Social science

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; PASTORALISM; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

(NORTH); TANZANIA;

EID: 0035744815     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr019161     Document Type: Article

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