The relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-56

  Nyantakyi Frimpong, Hanson ^a   Bezner Kerr, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Gender; Local knowledge; Multiple stressors; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GENDER; PERCEPTION; SEMIARID REGION; SMALLHOLDER; VULNERABILITY;

GHANA;

EID: 84929190479     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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