Withdrawing, resisting, maintaining and adapting: food security and vulnerability in Jumla, Nepal

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1667-1678

  Gaire, Kamal ^a   Beilin, Ruth ^a   Miller, Fiona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Coping; Food security; Risk; Social ecological systems; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947029235     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0724-7     Document Type: Article

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