Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea-level rise and coastal flooding - A global assessment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Neumann, Barbara ^a   Vafeidis, Athanasios T ^a   Zimmermann, Juliane ^a   Nicholls, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BANGLADESH; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CHINA; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HUMAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; LAND USE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STORM SURGE; URBANIZATION; VIET NAM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; MIGRATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; FLOODS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84924597611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118571     Document Type: Article

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