Resilience and adaptation to extremes in a changing Himalayan environment

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 683-698

  Kaul, Vaibhav ^a,b   Thornton, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Mountain environments; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897022737     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0526-3     Document Type: Article

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