Migration and climate change: Towards an integrated assessment of sensitivity

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-450

  Black, Richard ^a   Kniveton, Dominic ^a   Schmidt Verkerk, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MIGRATION;

BANGLADESH; GHANA;

EID: 79952345065     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43154     Document Type: Article

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