The outburst: Climate change, gender relations, and situational analysis

Social Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 76-89

  Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Climate variability; Development projects; Gender relations; Rural populations; Sahel; Social situation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955385356     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2010.540305     Document Type: Article

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