Climate vulnerability index - measure of climate change vulnerability to communities: A case of rural Lower Himalaya, India

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-506

  Pandey, Rajiv ^b   Jha, ShashidharKumar ^a  

^a Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education   (India)

^b BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Exposure; Mitigation; Sensitivity; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY CARE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INDEX METHOD; MONITORING; NATURAL DISASTER; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84860356786     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-011-9338-2     Document Type: Article

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