Canadian prairie rural communities: Their vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities to drought

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 267-290

  Wittrock, Virginia ^a   Kulshreshtha, Suren N ^b   Wheaton, Elaine ^a  

^a SASKATCHEWAN RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Canada; Community; Drought; Impacts; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; PRAIRIE; RIVER BASIN; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VULNERABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; HANNA; SASKATCHEWAN; SASKATCHEWAN RIVER;

EID: 79751532616     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-010-9262-x     Document Type: Article

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