Historical area and shoreline change of reef islands around Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati

Sustainability Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 345-362

  Biribo, Naomi ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atoll; Kiribati; Sea level rise; Shoreline change; Tarawa Atoll

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879782360     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-013-0210-z     Document Type: Article

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