Expert judgements of sea-level rise at the local scale

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 664-685

  Thomas, Merryn ^a   Pidgeon, Nick ^a   Whitmarsh, Lorraine ^a   Ballinger, Rhoda ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert judgement; Probability; Sea level rise; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; COMMUNICATION STRATEGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL RISE; UNCERTAINTY;

SEA LEVEL;

EID: 84929500550     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2015.1043568     Document Type: Article

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