Adaptation to five metres of sea level rise

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 467-482

  Tol, Richard S J ^a,b,c   Bohn, Maria ^d   Downing, Thomas E ^d   Guillerminet, Marie Laure ^a,e   Hizsnyik, Eva ^f   Kasperson, Roger ^d   Lonsdale, Kate ^d   Mays, Claire ^g   Nicholls, Robert J ^h   Olsthoorn, Alexander A ^b   Pfeifle, Gabriele ^g   Poumadere, Marc ^g   Toth, Ferenc L ^f,i   Vafeidis, Athanasios T ^j,k   Van Der Werff, Peter E ^b   Yetkiner, I Hakan ^a,l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e GAZ DE FRANCE   (France)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^g Institut Symlog   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^j MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^l IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

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Author keywords

Adaptation; Sea level rise; West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARIES;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS; SEA LEVEL RISE; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 33746613639     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669870600717632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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