Estuarine margins vulnerability to floods for different sea level rise and human occupation scenarios

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISSUE 65, 2013, Pages 820-825

  Rilo, Ana ^a   Freire, Paula ^a   Guerreiro, Martha ^a   Fortunato, André Bustorff ^a   Taborda, Rui ^b  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Climate change; Future development scenarios; Land use; Tagus estuary

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD WAVE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE LOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL CURRENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; TAGUS ESTUARY;

EID: 84883789569     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI65-139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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