Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Need for Better Evidence

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Jan 26

PMID 23349623

Citations 10

Authors

Nothemba Kula

Andy Haines

Robert Fryatt

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