Expected climate change impacts on land and natural resource use in Namibia: exploring economically efficient responses

Pastoralism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Barnes, Jon I ^a   MacGregor, James ^b   Alberts, Moira ^c  

^a Design and Development Services   (Namibia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Independent consultant   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Economics; Land use; Livestock; Namibia; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975318135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-2-22     Document Type: Article

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