Economic impacts of rapid glacier retreat in the Andes

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Volumn 88, Issue 25, 2007, Pages

  Vergara, Walter ^a   Deeb, Alejandro M ^a   Valencia, Adriana M ^a   Bradley, Raymond S ^b   Francou, Bernard ^c   Zarzar, Alonso ^a   Grünwaldt, Alfred ^a   Haeussling, Seraphine M ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; GLACIER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547111280     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007EO250001     Document Type: Article

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