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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Moitra, Aparna; Kumar, Archna |
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Conference:
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International Conference on Climate Change & Social Issues 2011 |
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Location:
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Colombo, Sri Lanka |
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Conf. Date:
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14-15 December |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7735
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Sector:
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Social Organization |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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climate change
indigenous institutions
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Abstract:
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"Climate change is a serious threat that the humanity is facing at the moment. There is growing research in the field of academics about the scientific impacts that the changing climate can bring about, but there is not much understanding about how women in the rural hill communities, whose lives are intricately intertwined with their environments, are affected by this phenomenon. As the fragility of hill ecosystems to the changes in the climate is well established, this paper attempts to bring out the perceptions and articulations of hill women in the Middle Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand, about the changes in the climate that they feel have aggravated their hardships by making them increasingly vulnerable to its effects."
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