Assessment of vulnerability to climate change using a multi-criteria outranking approach with application to heat stress in Sydney

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 207-217

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Climate change; Heat stress; Multiple criteria analysis; Outranking procedures; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

HEAT STRESS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; OUTRANKING PROCEDURES; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

AGGLOMERATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEATING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 84907494969     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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