Migration and risk: Net migration in marginal ecosystems and hazardous areas

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  De Sherbinin, Alex ^a   Levy, Marc ^a   Adamo, Susana ^a   MacManus, Kytt ^a   Yetman, Greg ^a   Mara, Valentina ^a   Razafindrazay, Liana ^a   Goodrich, Benjamin ^b   Srebotnjak, Tanja ^c   Aichele, Cody ^a   Pistolesi, Linda ^a  

^a Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c ECOLOGIC INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIGITAL STORAGE; STORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA AND INDIA; CLIMATE HAZARDS; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; HAZARDOUS AREA; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; CYCLONE; DEVELOPING WORLD; DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CHINA; INDIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84871835855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045602     Document Type: Article

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