Climate change vulnerability profiles for North East india

Current Science

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-394

  Ravindranath, N H ^a   Rao, Sandhya ^b   Sharma, Nitasha ^a   Nair, Malini ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ranjith ^a   Rao, Ananya S ^a   Malaviya, Sumedha ^a   Tiwari, Rakesh ^a   Sagadevan, Anitha ^a   Munsi, Madhushree ^a   Krishna, Niharika ^a   Bala, Govindasamy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Forest; Vulnerability index; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053302175     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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