Building bonds and breaking bridges: Community based adaptation (CBA) as a source of conflict in a Northern Ghanaian landscape

Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability in Rural West Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 103-120

  Soeters, Sebastiaan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84978196257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31499-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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