Assessing climate change impacts on coastal infrastructure in the Eastern Caribbean

Marine Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 393-409

  Lewsey, Clement ^a   Cid, Gonzalo ^a   Kruse, Edward ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal infrastructure; Eastern Caribbean; Integrated coastal management; Land use planning

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 3042546242     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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