Vulnerability and adaptation of African rural populations to hydro-climate change: Experience from fishing communities in the Inner Niger Delta (Mali)

Climatic Change

Volumn 115, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 463-483

  Morand, Pierre ^a   Kodio, Amaga ^b   Andrew, Neil ^c   Sinaba, Famory ^b   Lemoalle, Jacques ^d   Béné, Christophe ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Institut d'Economie Rurale Mali   (Mali)

^c WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; FLOOD PLAINS; HIGH POPULATION DENSITY; LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES; NIGER DELTA; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

FISHERIES;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; FISHING COMMUNITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INNOVATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; RAINFALL; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

MALI; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA;

EID: 84868684506     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0492-7     Document Type: Article

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