Adaptation to climate change in glaciated mountain regions

Climatic Change

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 77-91

  McDowell, Graham ^a   Stephenson, Eleanor ^a   Ford, James ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; GROUND ADAPTATION; HUMAN ADAPTATION; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84919877427     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1215-z     Document Type: Article

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