Integrated assessment of smallholder farming’s vulnerability to drought in the Brazilian Semi-arid: a case study in Ceará

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-105

  Lindoso, Diego Pereira ^a   Rocha, Juliana Dalboni ^a   Debortoli, Nathan ^a   Parente, Izabel Ibiapina ^a   Eiró, Flávio ^b   Bursztyn, Marcel ^a   Rodrigues Filho, Saulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ARID REGIONS; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; NATIONAL POLICIES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT TOOL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FARMING SYSTEM; NATIONAL PLANNING; SEMIARID REGION; SMALLHOLDER;

BRAZIL; CEARA;

EID: 84912011274     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1116-1     Document Type: Article

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