Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation in North Africa with focus on Morocco

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-26

  Schilling, Janpeter ^a,b   Freier, Korbinian P ^a,c   Hertig, Elke ^d   Scheffran, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b School of Integrated Climate System Sciences   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Climate change; Morocco; North africa; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUELWOOD; PASTORALISM; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY; WATER STRESS;

ALGERIA; EGYPT; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MOROCCO; TUNISIA;

EID: 84861214729     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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