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12 - Accounts from Tribal Elders: Increasing Vulnerability of the Navajo People to Drought and Climate Change in the Southwestern United States

from Part III - Confronting Extreme Events

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2018

Douglas Nakashima
Affiliation:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France
Igor Krupnik
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Jennifer T. Rubis
Affiliation:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France
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