Livelihood vulnerability approach to assessing climate change impacts on mixed agro-livestock smallholders around the Gandaki River Basin in Nepal

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1121-1132

  Panthi, Jeeban ^a   Aryal, Suman ^b   Dahal, Piyush ^a   Bhandari, Parashuram ^c   Krakauer, Nir Y ^d   Pandey, Vishnu Prasad ^e,f  

^a The Small Earth Nepal (SEN)   (Nepal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^d City University of New York   (United States)

^e Asian Institute of Technology and Management (AITM)   (Nepal)

^f ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mixed agro livestock; Nepal; Smallholders; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935126102     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0833-y     Document Type: Article

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