Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 182-187

  Klein, Richard J T ^a   Nicholls, Robert J ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM;

EID: 0032910027     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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30. Richard Klein was funded by the United Nations Environment Programme. Both authors wish to thank Jan F. Feenstra (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) and Michael Short (United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi) for their permission to submit this article to Ambio.
31. First submitted 7 April 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 21 November 1997.