Livelihood strategies in Shaxi, Southwest China: Conceptualizing mountain-valley interactions as a human-environment system

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3204-3229

  Huber, Franz K ^a   Morlok, Michael ^b   Weckerle, Caroline S ^c   Seeland, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b S Volkswirtschaftliche Beratung ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Education; Ethnic minorities; Migrant labor; Natural resources; Village networks; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ETHNIC MINORITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MIGRANT WORKER; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84926361775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7033204     Document Type: Article

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