A climate change adaptation planning process for low-lying, communities vulnerable to sea level rise

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2176-2208

  Barron, Sara ^a   Canete, Glenis ^a   Carmichael, Jeff ^b   Flanders, David ^a   Pond, Ellen ^c   Sheppard, Stephen ^a   Tatebe, Kristi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Metro Vancouver   (Canada)

^c The Pembina Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Flooding; Integrated assessment; Inundation; Participatory planning; Planning process; Resilience; Sea level rise; Visualization; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872398591     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4092176     Document Type: Article

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