Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Tom Downing
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction. Climate Variability, Climate Change and Vulnerability: Moving Forward by Looking Back
- PART I OVERVIEW
- PART II CLIMATE VARIATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY
- 2 Climate Change and Variability in Mexico
- 3 The Impact of Climate Variation and Sustainable Development in the Sudano-Sahelian Region
- 4 Climate Change and Sustainable Development in China's Semi-arid Regions
- 5 Settlement Advance and Retreat: A Century of Experience on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia
- PART III CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND VULNERABILITY: CAUSALITY AND RESPONSE
- PART IV THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATIC VARIATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS (ICID)
4 - Climate Change and Sustainable Development in China's Semi-arid Regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Tom Downing
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction. Climate Variability, Climate Change and Vulnerability: Moving Forward by Looking Back
- PART I OVERVIEW
- PART II CLIMATE VARIATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY
- 2 Climate Change and Variability in Mexico
- 3 The Impact of Climate Variation and Sustainable Development in the Sudano-Sahelian Region
- 4 Climate Change and Sustainable Development in China's Semi-arid Regions
- 5 Settlement Advance and Retreat: A Century of Experience on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia
- PART III CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND VULNERABILITY: CAUSALITY AND RESPONSE
- PART IV THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATIC VARIATIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS (ICID)
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- Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-arid Tropics , pp. 92 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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