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Article: WEATHERING RISK IN RURAL MEXICO: CLIMATIC, INSTITUTIONAL, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
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- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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- February 1, 2008
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WEATHERING RISK IN RURAL MEXICO: CLIMATIC, INSTITUTIONAL, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE Hallie Eakin, 2006, 242 pp., $50.00, hardbound, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0-8165-2500-5
The goal of Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico by Hallie Eakin is to unravel the complex interactions of both climatic risk and institutional change in the vulnerability of Mexican rural households. It is based on the author's close encounters with farmers' experiences and on ethnographic data (surveys, interviews, informal conversations, and group discussions) collected from three rural communities in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley in central Mexico. Thus, the book is written from a social geography perspective and will ...