Climate change, land-use change, and floods: Toward an integrated assessment

Geography Compass

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1549-1579

  Chang, Heejun ^a   Franczyk, Jon ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 59649091179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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