Weather and climate extremes: Pacemakers of adaptation?

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-39

  Travis, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Extreme events

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; EXTREME EVENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922507589     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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