The risk of climate change for tourism in the Maldives

Island Tourism: Towards a Sustainable Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 72-84

  Becken, Susanne ^a   Hay, John E ^a   Espiner, Stephen ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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