Riders under storms: Contributions of nomadic herders' observations to analysing climate change in Mongolia

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 162-176

  Marin, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ethnometeorology; Impacts; Indigenous knowledge; Mongolia; Pastoralism; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; NOMADIC PEOPLE; PASTORALISM; STEPPE; STORM;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 72949101028     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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