Divergent options to cope with vulnerability in subsiding deltas

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 31-39

  Vermaat, Jan E ^a   Eleveld, Marieke A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

ECONOMICAL INDICATOR; HIGH POPULATION DENSITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DENSITIES; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SPATIAL PLANNING;

FLOODS;

ACCRETION; DELTA; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; FLOODING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SPATIAL PLANNING; STORM SURGE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; GANGES DELTA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EQUUS KIANG; PRAYA;

EID: 84873723194     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0532-3     Document Type: Article

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