Building climate resilience: Lessons of early warning in Africa

Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 201-219

  Boyd, Emily ^a,b   Cornforth, Rosalind J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84920755818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203593882     Document Type: Chapter

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