Identifying hot spots of security vulnerability associated with climate change in Africa

Climatic Change

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 717-731

  Busby, Joshua W ^a   Cook, Kerry H ^b   Vizy, Edward K ^b   Smith, Todd G ^a   Bekalo, Mesfin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAZARDS; HEATING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; COMMUNITY RESILIENCES; PHYSICAL EXPOSURES; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; POPULATION DENSITIES; RAIN FED AGRICULTURE; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGENDA 21; CLIMATE CHANGE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RISK FACTOR; VULNERABILITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 84902251370     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1142-z     Document Type: Article

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