Assessing local vulnerability to climate change in Ecuador

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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Fernandez, Mario Andres ^a   Bucaram, Santiago J ^b   Renteria, Willington ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

^c Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Empirical orthogonal function; Exposure; Indicator; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948450290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-1536-z     Document Type: Article

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