Adaptive capacity and social-environmental change: Theoretical and operational modeling of smallholder coffee systems response in mesoamerican pacific rim

Environmental Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 352-367

  Eakin, Hallie ^a   Bojórquez Tapia, Luis A ^b   Diaz, Rafael Monterde ^c   Castellanos, Edwin ^d   Haggar, Jeremy ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^e CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Analytic network process; Land use change; Latin America; Livelihoods; Tropical agriculture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; LAND USE CHANGE; LATIN AMERICA; LIVELIHOODS; TROPICAL AGRICULTURE;

ECOLOGY; LAND USE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE;

RAIN;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COFFEE; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FARMING SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIAL CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COFFEE; COFFEE PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOUSEHOLD; LIVELIHOOD CHANGE; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL FERTILITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COFFEE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMANS; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOCIAL CHANGE;

LATIN AMERICA; MESOAMERICA;

EID: 79954436114     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9603-2     Document Type: Article

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