Climate change awareness and strategies for communicating the risk of coastal flooding: A Canadian Maritime case example

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-94

  Lieske, David J ^a   Wade, Tracey ^b   Roness, Lori Ann ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Tantramar Planning District Commission   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal flooding; Risk communication; Risk perception; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DIKE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLOODING; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; PERCEPTION; RISK FACTOR; SEA LEVEL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISUALIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

EID: 84896492447     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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