IUPA: A tool for the evaluation of the general usefulness of practices for adaptation to climate change and variability

Natural Hazards

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-233

  Debels, P ^a,b   Szlafsztein, C ^c   Aldunce, P ^d   Neri, C ^e   Carvajal, Y ^f   Quintero Angel, M ^f   Celis, A ^g   Bezanilla, A ^h   Martinez D ^i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE INGENIERÍA   (Nicaragua)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^g CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales   (Argentina)

^h Instituto de Meteorologia de la Republica de Cuba   (Cuba)

ⁱ Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente de Panamá   (Panama)

^j CATHALAC ^*  (Panama)

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Author keywords

Adaptation; Chile; Climate change; Decision making; Index; Latin America and the Caribbean; Multi criteria

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILE; COQUIMBO; LATIN AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67650107051     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9333-4     Document Type: Article

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