Land use adaptation to climate change: Economic damages from land-falling hurricanes in the atlantic and gulf States of the USA, 1900-2005

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 917-932

  Zia, Asim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Disaster management; Dynamic modeling; Economic damages; Extreme weather events; Land use policy; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864315283     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4050917     Document Type: Article

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