Decision dilemmas for adaptation to sea level rise: How to, when to?

IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1622-1626

  Sahin, Oz ^a   Mohamed, Sherif ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Decision making; Dynamic modelling; Flooding; SLR; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FLOODING; COASTAL HAZARDS; COASTAL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKERS; DYNAMIC MODELLING; DYNAMIC NATURE; SEA LEVEL RISE; STORM SURGES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; WATERFRONT PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; SEA LEVEL;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77949502874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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