Meat production' sensitivity and adaptation to precipitation concentration index during the growing season of grassland: Insights from rural households

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 201, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-60

  Fang, Yi ping ^a   Liu, Yun wei ^a,b   Yan, Xiao ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation of climate change; Household scale; Precipitation concentration index (PCI); Productive fixed assets; Sensitivity of meat production

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MEAT; PASTORALISM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RURAL AREA;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84911361869     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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