Assessing the predictability of future livelihood strategies of pastoralists in semi-arid Morocco under climate change

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 371-382

  Freier, Korbinian P ^a,c   Bruggemann, Rainer ^b   Scheffran, Jürgen ^c   Finckh, Manfred ^c   Schneider, Uwe A ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Global change; Historical contingency; Multi criteria analysis; Partially ordered sets; Path dependence; Transhumant pastoralism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTIALLY ORDERED SET; PATH-DEPENDENCE; TRANSHUMANT PASTORALISM;

SET THEORY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PASTORALISM; PREDICTION; SEMIARID REGION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84855768794     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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