Climatic and environmental change in the Karakoram: Making sense of community perceptions and adaptation strategies

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1151-1162

  Gioli, Giovanna ^a,b   Khan, Talimand ^b   Scheffran, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Sustainable Development Policy Institute Islamabad   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Indus; Karakoram; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900867848     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0550-3     Document Type: Article

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