Households' coping strategies for climate variability related water shortages in Oke-Ogun region, Nigeria

Environmental Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-38

  Adeniji Oloukoi, Grace ^a   Urmilla, Bob ^b   Vadi, Moodley ^b  

^a LEAD CITY UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Coping strategies; Households; Nigeria; Oke Ogun; Water shortage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873306484     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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