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LIVING WITH CHANGE: adaptation and innovation in Ladakh

@inproceedings{Daultrey2011LIVINGWC,
  title={LIVING WITH CHANGE: adaptation and innovation in Ladakh},
  author={Stuart Daultrey and R. Gergan},
  year={2011}
}
Introduction General concepts of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and adaptation strategy must be understood in the context of local challenges and opportunities if they are to be useful at the scale of the communities and regions where people live (see Box 1). Although excluded from most national and regional models and studies, Ladakh provides a case study for exploring the ways in which adaptation to environmental change is taking place at community scale, both through the implementation of… 
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