Residents' perspectives and responses to environmental degradation in the upper Dadu River, eastern Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-305

  Yan, Jianzhong ^a,b   Zhang, Yili ^a,c   Liu, Linshan ^a   Bai, Wanqi ^a   Zhu, Huiyi ^a   Shi, Yulin ^a   Zheng, Du ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental degradation; Livelihood strategy; Response; The upper Dadu River; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749033897     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-006-0305-x     Document Type: Article

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