Accessing adaptation: Multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 342-352

  McDowell, Julia Z ^a   Hess, Jeremy J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Adaptation; Agriculture; Andes; Bolivia; Climate change; Livelihoods; Multiple stressors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN CAPITAL; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; LAND DEGRADATION; NATURAL CAPITAL; RAINFALL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UPLAND REGION; VULNERABILITY;

ANDES; BOLIVIA;

EID: 84860247275     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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