Assessing impacts and responses to global-mean sea-level rise

Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment

Volumn 9780521866033, Issue , 2007, Pages 119-134

  Nicholls, Robert J ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^b   Hall, Jim W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS EMISSIONS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE GASES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADDITIONAL STRESS; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; GLOBAL POPULATION; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HUMAN EXPOSURES; SEALEVEL CHANGE; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 51649086924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511619472.013     Document Type: Chapter

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