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Climate Change Adaptation and Forest Dependent Communities

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The purpose of this chapter is to make a review of literature on adaptation to climate change and forest dependent communities. This may be analyzed with reference to the following aspects, namely livelihood, vulnerability, adaptation and adaptive capacity.

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Basu, J.P. (2017). Review of Literature. In: Climate Change Adaptation and Forest Dependent Communities. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52325-5_1

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