Once there was a lake: Vulnerability to environmental changes in northern Mali

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 493-508

  Djoudi, Houria ^a   Brockhaus, Maria ^a   Locatelli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Drylands; Ecosystem based adaptation; Forest based livelihoods; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878580783     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0262-5     Document Type: Article

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