Increasing flood risk and wetland losses due to global sea-level rise: Regional and global analyses

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Nicholls, Robert J ^a   Hoozemans, Frank M J ^b   Marchand, Marcel ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaption; Climate change; Costs; Impacts

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; HABITAT LOSS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WETLAND;

EID: 0032719143     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(99)00019-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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