Gender and climate change vulnerability: What's the problem, what's the solution?

Distributional Impacts of Climate Change and Disasters: Concepts and Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 82-102

  Patt, Anthony G ^a   Dazé, Angie ^b   Suarez, Pablo ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARE International ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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