Adaptive capacity in Tanzanian Maasailand: Changing strategies to cope with drought in fragmented landscapes

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 588-597

  Goldman, Mara J ^a   Riosmena, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Africa; Coping mechanisms; Institutions; Maasai; Mobility; Pastoralism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MOBILITY; PASTORALISM; PASTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGELAND;

TANZANIA;

BOS;

EID: 84877066165     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.010     Document Type: Article

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