Decades of drought, years of hunger: Archival investigations of multiple year droughts in late colonial Chihuahua

Climatic Change

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 391-419

  Endfield, Georgina H ^a   Tejedo, Isabel Fernández ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER RESOURCES; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

CLIMATE EVENTS; CROP FAILURE; FAMINE; FOOD SHORTAGES; TREE RING ANALYSIS; WILDFIRES;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

CHIHUAHUA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33744488793     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-3492-7     Document Type: Article

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