Gender and occupational perspectives on adaptation to climate extremes in the Afram Plains of Ghana

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 431-454

  Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey ^a   Atidoh, Lucy Kafui ^a   Burkett, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; AFRAM PLAINS; CHARCOAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CROP YIELD; EXISTING CONDITIONS; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; FOCUS GROUPS; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SCARCE RESOURCES; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

AGRICULTURE; CHARCOAL; DROUGHT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; EMISSION; FLOOD; GENDER; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AFRAM PLAINS; EASTERN REGION [GHANA]; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 83055172855     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0237-z     Document Type: Article

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