The impact of climate change on urban transport resilience in a changing world

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 448-463

  Jaroszweski, David ^a   Hooper, Elizabeth ^a   Chapman, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCIA; Climate change; Climate change Impact assessment; Climate projections; Socio economic scenarios; Transport; Transport meteorology

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84927760501     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: 14770296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314538741     Document Type: Article

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