Exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: Population and asset exposure to coastal flooding in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-94

  Kebede, Abiy S ^a   Nicholls, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asset exposure; Coastal flooding; Dar es Salaam; Extreme water levels; Population exposure; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856954691     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0239-4     Document Type: Article

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