Local climate change, water scarcity and institutional responses in Xinjiang, China

Local Climate Change and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-89

  Spoor, Max ^a   Pingan, Jiang ^b   Arsel, Murat ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change mitigation; Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; Human induced climate change; Tarim river basin (TRB); Water scarcity; Xinjiang uyghur autonomous region (XUAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917482012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203109717     Document Type: Chapter

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