Equity in forecasting climate: Can science save the world's poor?

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-116

  Lemos, Maria Carmen ^a   Dilling, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; EQUITY; POVERTY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 34249660979     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/030234207X190964     Document Type: Review

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