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Climate Change Vulnerability and Communities in Agro-climatic Regions of West Bengal, India pp 1–7Cite as

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The study of vulnerability is a multidisciplinary approach. Different disciplines are involved in studying vulnerability research. It covers the areas of climate change as well as the other field of research like ecology, public health, poverty and development, secure livelihoods, sustainability science, and land—use change

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Basu, J.P. (2021). Introduction. In: Climate Change Vulnerability and Communities in Agro-climatic Regions of West Bengal, India. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50468-7_1

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