National housing and impervious surface scenarios for integrated climate impact assessments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 20887-20892

  Bierwagen, Britta G ^a   Theobald, David M ^b   Pyke, Christopher R ^c   Choate, Anne ^d   Groth, Philip ^d   Thomas, John V ^a   Morefield, Philip ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c US Green Building Council   (United States)

^d ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Land planning; Urbanization; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HABITAT; HOUSING; LAND USE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATERSHED;

AIR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FORECASTING; FRESH WATER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OWNERSHIP; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 78650456865     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002096107     Document Type: Article

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