Assessment of vulnerability to climate change using indicators: Methodological challenges

Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 143-156

  Tonmoy, Fahim N ^a   El Zein, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indicator; Meta analysis; Methodological challenge; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); RISK ASSESSMENT;

META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NATURAL DISASTERS; POLICY MAKERS; TEMPORAL SCALE; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84895068561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/9781461475880     Document Type: Chapter

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