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The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia

  • Bamlaku Tadesse , Fekadu Beyene , Workneh Kassa and Richard Wentzell
Published/Copyright: December 17, 2015
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Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems
From the journal Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems Volume 2 Issue 1

Received: 2015-3-31
Accepted: 2015-11-12
Published Online: 2015-12-17
Published in Print: 2015-1-1

© 2015 Bamlaku Tadesse et al.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/cass-2015-0025
Keywords for this article
Climate change; adaptation; coping; Ethiopia; (agro) pastoralists
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