Cultural values and indigenous knowledge of climate change and disaster prediction in Rajasthan, India

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-189

  Pareek, Aparna ^a   Trivedi, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Emergency management; Natural hazards; Rajasthan; Traditional knowledge; Tribal peoples

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952165859     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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