Vulnerability to weather disasters: The choice of coping strategies in rural Uganda

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Helgeson, Jennifer F ^a,b   Dietz, Simon ^a,b   Hochrainer Stigler, Stefan ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment   (New Zealand)

^c IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Library   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Covariate risk; Education; Extreme weather; Poverty trap; Small scale farming; Uganda; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; EDUCATION; FARMING SYSTEM; NATURAL DISASTER; POVERTY; RURAL SOCIETY; SEVERE WEATHER; VULNERABILITY;

UGANDA;

EID: 84877327260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05390-180202     Document Type: Article

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