Floodplain development, El Niño, and cultural consequences in a hyperarid Andean environment

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 229-249

  Manners, R B ^a   Magilligan, Francis J ^b   Goldstein, P S ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Climate change; El Ni o; Floods; Geoarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOODPLAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249853770     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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