A multi-scale assessment of human vulnerability to climate change in the Aral Sea basin

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 719-729

  Lioubimtseva, Elena ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Climate change scenarios; Kazakhstan; Spatial scale; Temporal scale; Uzbekistan; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE;

CENTRAL ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; KAZAKHSTAN; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; UZBEKISTAN; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84920708397     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3104-1     Document Type: Article

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