The art of adaptation: Living with climate change in the rural American Southwest

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1830-1840

  Brugger, Julie ^a   Crimmins, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; American Southwest; Anthropocene; Case study; Climate change; Nature society mutuality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLICY MAKING; PRIORITIZATION; RURAL AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889086960     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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