Quantifying socioeconomic characteristics of drought-sensitive regions: Evidence from Chinese provincial agricultural data

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 679-688

  Fraser, Evan D G ^a   Termansen, Mette ^a   Sun, Ning ^b   Guan, Dabo ^c   Simelton, Elisabeth ^a   Dodds, Paul ^a   Feng, Kuishang ^a   Yu, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural data; Drought sensitive regions; Eastern China; Rainfall data; Socioeconomic characteristics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPPING PRACTICE; DROUGHT; HARVESTING; MAIZE; RAINFALL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WHEAT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 52949099513     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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