A decision analysis approach to climate adaptation: a structured method to consider multiple options

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-28

  Little, L Richard ^a   Lin, Brenda B ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation pathway; Beach recession; Climate change; Decision analysis; Sea level rise; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BEACH; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE; SIMULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84929094280     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-015-9658-8     Document Type: Article

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