Mediterranean agriculture under climate change: Adaptive capacity, adaptation, and ethics

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 607-618

  Grasso, Marco ^a   Feola, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Agriculture; Climate change; Ethics; Mediterranean region

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865427171     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0274-1     Document Type: Article

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