Water availability for agriculture under climate change: Understanding adaptation strategies in the Mediterranean

Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Socio-economic Perspectives of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 75-93

  Iglesias, Ana ^a,b   Ward, M Neil ^b   Menendez, Manuel ^c   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Center of Hydrographic Studies of the Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works Spanish Ministry of Public Works   (Spain)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 12544255533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781950258.000016     Document Type: Chapter

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