Impacts and responses to sea-level rise: A global analysis of the SRES scenarios over the twenty-first century

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 1073-1095

  Nicholls, Robert J ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Climate policy; Coasts; Flooding; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; OIL WELL FLOODING;

ADAPTATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE RISE; CLIMATE POLICY; COASTAL POPULATION; EMISSION SCENARIO; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SCALE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; HUMAN SOCIETY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRO-ACTIVE APPROACH; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SMALL ISLAND; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SRES SCENARIO;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33645555579     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1754     Document Type: Article

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