Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment: Information tools for community adaptation to changes in climate or land use

Risk Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1495-1509

  Dempsey, Rachael ^a   Fisher, Ann ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate projections; Community decisionmaking; Decision support; Land use change; Local case studies; Stakeholder participation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEBSITES;

CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; COMMUNITY DECISIONMAKING; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOCAL CASE STUDIES; STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INFORMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FLOODING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; POLICY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31944441288     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00695.x     Document Type: Review

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