Building world narratives for climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability analyses

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 151-155

  Hallegatte, Stephane ^a,b   Przyluski, Valentin ^a   Vogt Schilb, Adrien ^a  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 82255172991     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1135     Document Type: Review

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