Climate policy implications of the recent ENSO events in a small island context

Climate Change and Africa

Volumn 9780521836340, Issue , 2005, Pages 231-239

  Payet, Rolph Antoine ^a  

^a Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources   (Seychelles)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL; PUBLIC POLICY;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EXTREME CLIMATES; EXTREME RAINFALL; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WATER SHORTAGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84927114692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535864.031     Document Type: Chapter

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