The impact of relative sea level rise on the Northern Adriatic Sea coast, Italy

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2009, Pages 137-148

  Carbognin, L ^a   Teatini, P ^a,b   Tosi, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Flooding; Geomorphologic features; Land subsidence; Northern adriatic coast; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865574346     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/RAV090121     Document Type: Article

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