Addressing global change challenges for Central Asian socio-ecosystems

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-121

  Qi, Jiaguo ^a   Bobushev, Temirbek S ^b   Kulmatov, Rashid ^c   Groisman, Pavel ^d   Gutman, Garik ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA   (Kyrgyzstan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF UZBEKISTAN   (Uzbekistan)

^d NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA Land Use and Land Cover Change Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Asia; climate change; land use and land cover change; water and food security

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WATER RESOURCE;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84864131055     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-012-0320-4     Document Type: Article

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