Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-179

  Lemos, Maria Carmen ^a   Lo, Yun Jia ^a   Nelson, Donald R ^b   Eakin, Hallie ^c   Bedran Martins, Ana Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Drought; Livelihoods; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RURAL ECONOMY; VULNERABILITY; WELFARE PROVISION;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84971597403     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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