Climate trends and impacts on crop production in the Koshi River basin of Nepal

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1291-1301

  Bhatt, Dinesh ^a,b   Maskey, Shreedhar ^a   Babel, Mukand S ^c   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^a,d   Prasad, Krishna C ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Irrigation ^*  (Nepal)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate trend; Crop yield; Koshi basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904709345     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0576-6     Document Type: Article

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