Environmental Performance and Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Case Study of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Climate Change Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-167

  Bhandari, Medani P ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evaluation; Governance and environmental performance (EP); Problems; Risk; South Asia; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904036516     PISSN: 16102002     EISSN: 16102010     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31110-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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