Social vulnerability and ecological fragility: Building bridges between social and natural sciences using the Irish Potato famine as a case study

Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Fraser, Evan D G ^a  

^a Leeds Institute for Environmental Science and Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entitlement theory; Famine; Food security; Ireland; Panarchy

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84879891163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00534-070209     Document Type: Article

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