Recommendations for responding to sea level rise: Lessons from North Carolina

Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008 - Proceedings of the Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008

Volumn 312, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-27

  Feldman, Rebecca L ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RLF Environmental   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL HAZARDS; COASTAL MANAGEMENTS; COASTAL REGIONS; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; NORTH CAROLINA; PUBLIC INVOLVEMENTS; RISK COMMUNICATIONS; SALT-WATER INTRUSIONS; SEA-LEVEL RISE; STORM SURGES; WETLAND LOSS;

COASTAL ZONES; DECISION MAKING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALT WATER INTRUSION; WATER LEVELS;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 57649107892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40968(312)2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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