Measuring household vulnerability to climate change-Why markets matter

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1694-1701

  Skjeflo, Sofie ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Computable general equilibrium; Malawi; Measuring vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MAIZE; MARKET SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

MALAWI;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84889079614     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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