Adapting cropping systems to climate change in Nepal: A cross-regional study of farmers' perception and practices

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 335-348

  Manandhar, Sujata ^a   Vogt, Dietrich Schmidt ^b   Perret, Sylvain R ^c   Kazama, Futaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Ecological regions; Indigenous knowledge; Nepal

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958069675     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0137-1     Document Type: Article

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