When deserts flood: Risk management and climatic processes among East African pastoralists

Climate Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-159

  Little, Peter D ^a   Mahmoud, Hussein ^a   Coppock, D Layne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

African pastoralism; Development policy; Drought; Floods; Food security; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EL NINO; FLOOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PASTORALISM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

(EAST); AFRICA;

SOMALIA;

EID: 0035745445     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr019149     Document Type: Article

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