Farmers' assessments of private adaptive measures to climate change and influential factors: A study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Natural Hazards

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 385-401

  Le Dang, Hoa ^a,b   Li, Elton ^a   Nuberg, Ian ^a   Bruwer, Johan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b NONG LAM UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive measure; Climate change; Farmers; Protection motivation theory; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893939062     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0931-4     Document Type: Article

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