Weathering risk in rural Mexico; climatic, institutional, and economic change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9780816525003

Weathering risk in rural Mexico; climatic, institutional, and economic change.

Eakin, Hallie.

U. of Arizona Press

2006

242 pages

$50.00

Hardcover

HD1795

Eakin (geography, U. of California, Santa Barbara) uses ethnographic data she collected from three agricultural communities in rural Mexico to demonstrate that economic and climatic change are connected. Focusing on the human dimensions of climate variability and ...

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