A study of rural senegalese attitudes and perceptions of their behavior to changes in the climate

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 929-941

  Dieye, Amadou M ^a   Roy, D P ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land cover land use change; Rural livelihoods; Scenarios; Senegal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COPING STRATEGIES; FOCUS GROUPS; LAND COVER; LAND-USE CHANGE; LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RURAL LIVELIHOOD; SCENARIOS; SEMI ARID; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SENEGAL;

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS;

LAND USE;

RAIN;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING STRATEGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; PASTORALISM; PERCEPTION; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAND USE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RURAL AREA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SENEGAL; SENEGALESE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ATTITUDE; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL;

SENEGAL;

EID: 84867573839     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9932-4     Document Type: Article

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