Of models and meanings: Cultural resilience in social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Crane, Todd A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agropastoralism; Climate change; Mali; Modeling; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURE; MODELING; PASTORALISM; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

MALI;

EID: 78651507134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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