Sea-level rise and coastal change: The past as a guide to the future

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 4-11

  Woodroffe, Colin D ^a   Murray Wallace, Colin V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal change; Sea level rise; Shoreline behaviour; Timescales

Indexed keywords

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; COASTAL CHANGE; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION; GEOSCIENCES; GEOSCIENTISTS; LATE QUATERNARY; POLICY MAKERS; PROCESS OPERATION; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE BEHAVIOUR; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; SEA LEVEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ATLAS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLICY MAKING; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; TIMESCALE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84867698653     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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