Assessing regional impacts and adaptation strategies for climate change: The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment

Climatic Change

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 9-27

  Miles, Edward L ^a   Elsner, Marketa M ^a   Littell, Jeremy S ^a   Binder, Lara Whitely ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATE WARMS; EIGHT SECTOR; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN RESOURCES; HUMAN SYSTEM; REGIONAL IMPACTS; SPACE AND TIME; URBAN STORMWATER; WASHINGTON; WASHINGTON STATE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HEALTH IMPACT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SALMONID; STORMWATER; URBAN CLIMATE; VULNERABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77956842992     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9853-2     Document Type: Article

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