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Assessing Vulnerability of Maasai Pastoralist in Kenya to Climate Change and Variability

2017-12-18

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Human adaptive responses to climate change occur at the local level, where climatic variability is experienced. Therefore analyzing vulnerability at the local level is important in planning effective adaptation options in a semi-arid environment. This study was conducted to assess vulnerability of Maasai pastoralist communities in Kajiado County, Kenya to climate change by generating vulnerability index for the co...

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Literature Corpus work: 43e8c8d8-b14e-5866-8c1e-7282d7e45f96
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201712.0127.v1

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