Assessing Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Approaches: Useful to Usable Tools

Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-137

  Prokopy, L S ^a   Mase, A S ^a   Perry Hill, R ^a   Lemos, M C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Agriculture; Climate variability; Social science; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; FARMING COMMUNITIES; SCIENCE METHODOLOGIES; VULNERABILITY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84893140581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00224-0     Document Type: Chapter

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