Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1601-1621

  Reyer, Christopher P O ^a   Adams, Sophie ^b,c   Albrecht, Torsten ^a   Baarsch, Florent ^b   Boit, Alice ^a   Canales Trujillo, Nella ^d   Cartsburg, Matti ^e   Coumou, Dim ^a   Eden, Alexander ^a   Fernandes, Erick ^f   Langerwisch, Fanny ^a   Marcus, Rachel ^d   Mengel, Matthias ^a   Mira Salama, Daniel ^f   Perette, Mahé ^a   Pereznieto, Paola ^d   Rammig, Anja ^a,g   Reinhardt, Julia ^a   Robinson, Alexander ^a,h,i   Rocha, Marcia ^b   Sakschewski, Boris ^a   Schaeffer, Michiel ^b   Schleussner, Carl Friedrich ^b   Serdeczny, Olivia ^b   Thonicke, Kirsten ^a   more..

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e Agripol Network for Policy Advice GbR   (Germany)

^f WORLD BANK   (United States)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Development; Global change; Poverty; Projections; Scenarios; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945572030     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0854-6     Document Type: Article

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