The Maldives project: A future free from sea-level flooding

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-155

  Mörner, Nils Axel ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; MONSOON; NATURAL HAZARD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MALDIVES;

EID: 4143140780     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958493042000242936     Document Type: Article

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