Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 258-269

  Sugden, Fraser ^a   Maskey, Niki ^a   Clement, Floriane ^a   Ramesh, Vidya ^b   Philip, Anil ^b   Rai, Ashok ^c  

^a IWMI   (Nepal)

^b IWMI Office   (India)

^c CIMMYT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Caste; Class; Climate change; Eastern gangetic plains; Gender; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FIELD SURVEY; GENDER RELATIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MIGRATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

EID: 84923277231     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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