The vulnerability of beach tourism to climate change-an index approach

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 579-606

  Perch Nielsen, Sabine L ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MULTIPLE TRANSFORMATION; ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS;

BEACHES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BEACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; INDEX METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 77953026787     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9692-1     Document Type: Article

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