Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: Insights from analogues

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 450-461

  McLeman, Robert A ^a   Hunter, Lori M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; HUMAN POPULATION; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79957589654     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.51     Document Type: Article

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