Relevant drivers of farmers’ decision behavior regarding their adaptation to climate change: a case study of two regions in Côte d’Ivoire

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 179-199

  Comoé, Hermann ^a   Siegrist, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation behavior; Categorical principal component analysis; Climate change; C te d Ivoire; Logistic regression; Smallholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880027072     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-013-9486-7     Document Type: Article

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