Effects of climate change on economic feasibility of future date palm production: An integrated assessment in Iran

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1268-1287

  Shabani, Farzin ^a   Cacho, Oscar ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

agriculture; climate change; CLIMEX; date palms; economics; Phoenix dactyliferaL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967341199     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2016.1162089     Document Type: Article

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