Consistency of local perceptions of climate change in the Kangchenjunga Himalaya landscape

Current Science

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 504-513

  Chaudhary, Pashupati ^a   Rai, Suman ^b   Wangdi, Siddhant ^b,c   Mao, Akai ^b   Rehman, Nishat ^b   Chettri, Santosh ^b   Bawa, Kamaljit S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Kangchenjunga; Local perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053603479     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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