Defining climate-change victims

Sustainability Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-16

  Popovski, Vesselin ^a   Mundy, Kieran G ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKIWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Migration; Natural disasters; Suffering; Victims; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055187961     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-011-0138-0     Document Type: Article

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