A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability: Agriculture and ranching on both sides of the US-Mexico border

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 159-173

  Vásquez León, Marcela ^a   West, Colin Thor ^a   Finan, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING STRATEGY; FARMING SYSTEM; RANCHING; VULNERABILITY;

MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042786901     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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