Climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from physical changes to their social repercussions

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  2017

• Venue

  Regional Environmental Change

• Publication date

  2017-08-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10113-015-0910-2
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