Climate change and population migration in Brazil's Northeast: Scenarios for 2025-2050

Population and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 344-370

  Barbieri, Alisson F ^a   Domingues, Edson ^a   Queiroz, Bernardo L ^a   Ruiz, Ricardo M ^a   Rigotti, José I ^a   Carvalho, José A M ^a   Resende, Marco F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Brazilian Northeast; Climate change; Migration; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; POPULATION MIGRATION; POVERTY; VULNERABILITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 77952426859     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-010-0105-1     Document Type: Article

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