Vulnerability of Himalayan transhumant communities to climate change

Climatic Change

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-208

  Aryal, Suman ^a   Cockfield, Geoff ^a   Maraseni, Tek Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELS;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ALTITUDE REGIONS; HEALTH FACILITIES; INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY; LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84957426695     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1157-5     Document Type: Article

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