Pastoral Livelihoods and Household Water Management in the Central Argentine Andes
Description:
Pastoralists tend to occupy highlands and drylands lands with uncertain climates and are experienced at coping with climatic variability and drought. Increasingly, however, the speed with which climate patterns are changing has become an issue of concern. This study examines household water management strategies of pastoralists in western Argentina. In this semi-arid region, pastoralists rely primarily on streams and springs fed by snow and glacier melt from the Andes, and have developed var…
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Date:
May 2015
Creator:
Parker, Julie
Partner:
UNT Libraries