Climate change and urbanization in the Yangtze River Delta

Habitat International

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 544-552

  Gu, Chaolin ^b   Hu, Lingqian ^a   Zhang, Xiaoming ^b   Wang, Xiaodan ^b   Guo, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; The Yangtze River Delta; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 79959200991     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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