A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1701-1713

  Mersha, Azeb Assefa ^a,b,c   Van Laerhoven, Frank ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ETHIOPIAN CIVIL SERVICE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Barriers; Climate change; Ethiopia; Gender; Sustainable livelihood approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953385492     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0921-z     Document Type: Article

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