A note on climate change adaptation for seaports: A challenge for global ports, a challenge for global society

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 683-695

  Becker, Austin H ^a   Acciaro, Michele ^b,c   Asariotis, Regina ^d   Cabrera, Edgard ^e   Cretegny, Laurent ^f   Crist, Philippe ^g   Esteban, Miguel ^h   Mather, Andrew ⁱ   Messner, Steve ^j   Naruse, Susumu ^k   Ng, Adolf K Y ^l   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^m   Savonis, Michael ⁿ   Song, Dong Wook ^o   Stenek, Vladimir ^p   Velegrakis, Adonis F ^q  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

^c KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d United Nations Conference on Trade and Development   (Switzerland)

^e WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f KPMG Australia   (Australia)

^g OECD   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ eThekwini Municipality   (South Africa)

^j NextPlan   (United States)

^k International Association or Ports and Harbors   (Japan)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^m POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁿ ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^o EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^p International Finance Corporation   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COASTAL LOCATIONS; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; PORT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR; TRADING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; SEA LEVEL;

PORTS AND HARBORS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; HOLISTIC APPROACH; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENT; PORT DEVELOPMENT; PORT OPERATION; STAKEHOLDER; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84884702058     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0843-z     Document Type: Article

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