Ways In and Out of Vulnerability to Climate Change: Abandoning the Mubarak Project in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 474-492

  Malm, Andreas ^a   Esmailian, Shora ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Independent writer   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accumulation by dispossession; Climate change; Egypt; Soil salinization; The Mubarak regime; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FARMING SYSTEM; SALINIZATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; VILLAGE; VULNERABILITY;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

EID: 84873419337     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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