Global environmental change and vulnerability of Least Developed Countries to extreme events: Editorial on the special issue

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 2-7

  Pauline Dube, Opha ^a   Sivakumar, Mannava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b 27 Chemin des Corbillettes   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84928773206     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.03.003     Document Type: Editorial

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