Grain Production Trends in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Global Climate Variability and Change

Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-141

  Lioubimtseva, Elena ^a   de Beurs, Kirsten M ^b   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^c  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Food security; Globalization; Heat wave; Kazakhstan; Land use; Russia; Ukraine; Water resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942287864     PISSN: 1867979X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/698_2013_225     Document Type: Chapter

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