Perceptions of present and future climate change impacts on water availability for agricultural systems in the western mediterranean region

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Nguyen, Thi Phuoc Lai ^a,b   Mula, Laura ^b   Cortignani, Raffaele ^c   Seddaiu, Giovanna ^b   Dono, Gabriele ^c   Virdis, Salvatore G P ^d   Pasqui, Massimiliano ^e   Roggero, Pier Paolo ^b  

^a TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate scenarios; Crop irrigation water requirement; Farmers' beliefs; Farmers' knowledge; Impact scenarios

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; IRRIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE SCENARIOS; FARMERS' BELIEFS; FARMERS' KNOWLEDGE; IMPACT SCENARIOS; IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; ORISTANO; SARDINIA;

EID: 85003441406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8110523     Document Type: Article

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