Assessing vulnerability of selected farming communities in the Philippines based on a behavioural model of agent's adaptation to global environmental change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 554-563

  Acosta Michlik, Lilibeth ^a,b,c   Espaldon, Victoria ^c  

^a Unité de Brasserie et des Industries Alimentaires   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agent based model; Climate change; Globalisation; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION; VILLAGE; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 56949096357     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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