The melting Arctic and its impact on China's maritime transport

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-57

  Hong, Nong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b National Institute for South China Sea Studies   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic melting; China; Impact; Maritime transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860240017     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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