Coordinating Environmental Protection and Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Resource-Dependent Communities: A Case Study from the Tibetan Plateau

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 42, Issue , 2011, Pages 423-438

  Klein, Julia A ^a   Yeh, Emily ^b   Bump, Joseph ^a   Nyima, Yonten ^b   Hopping, Kelly ^a  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate adaptation; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Environmental policy; Grazing; Natural resource management; Pastoralism; Property regimes; Rangeland policy; Resource dependent communities; Social ecological systems; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049296637     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_31     Document Type: Chapter

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