Why populations persist: mobility, place attachment and climate change

Population and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 429-448

  Adams, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural theory; Environmental change; Immobility; Migration; Peru; Place attachment; Trapped

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; MOBILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PERU;

EID: 84941711628     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-015-0246-3     Document Type: Article

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