Coping with drought risk: empirical analysis of farmers’ drought adaptation in the south-west Netherlands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1081-1093

  van Duinen, Rianne ^a,b   Filatova, Tatiana ^a,b   Geurts, Peter ^a   van der Veen, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Drought; Protection motivation theory; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937811680     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0692-y     Document Type: Article

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