Food security under a changing climate: Frontiers of science or adaptation frontiers?

Climate Adaptation Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 56-68

  Howden, Mark ^a   Nelson, Rohan A ^b   Crimp, Steven ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate adaptation frontiers; Climate change; Food security; Science policy decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886359048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118529577.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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