Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa

This paper examines the success of small-scale farming livelihoods in adapting to climate variability and change. We represent adaptation actions as choices within a response space that includes coping but also longer-term adaptation actions, and define success as those actions which promote system...

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Main Authors: Henny Osbahr, Chasca Twyman, W. Neil. Adger, David S. G. Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2010-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss2/art27/