Loss of cultural world heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Marzeion, Ben ^a   Levermann, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

chlimate impacts; cultural heritage; sealevel rise

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CHLIMATE IMPACTS; CULTURAL HERITAGES; GLOBAL POPULATION; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TEMPERATURE LEVEL; WORLD POPULATION;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COASTAL ZONE; CULTURAL HERITAGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; HABITAT LOSS; HERITAGE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNESCO; WARMING;

EID: 84897516398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034001     Document Type: Article

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