Crop Growers' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: A Situated Study of Agriculture in Arizona's Verde Valley.
Climate change will pose unprecedented challenges for agricultural producers globally, requiring the ability to adapt to new and unpredictable conditions. This study explores the adaptive capacity of crop growers in the Verde Valley, Arizona (US). Rather than examining pre-determined indicators of a...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 94 - 110 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jan2019
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