Risk management strategies to cope with climate change in grassland production: An illustrative case study for the Swiss plateau

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 935-949

  Finger, Robert ^a   Calanca, Pierluigi ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Grassland production; Insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555179237     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0234-9     Document Type: Article

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