Better explicating the strengths and shortcomings of these models will help refine projections and improve transparency in the years ahead.
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Edited* by Karl W. Butzer, University of Texas, Austin, TX, and approved December 23, 2011 (received for review September 9, 2011)
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The resilience and adaptive capacity of social-environmental systems in colonial Mexico
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- Integrating Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience
- Mexico as a Case Study in Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change
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- Social Capital Responses to Drought, Agrarian Crisis, and Floods in Colonial Mexico
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