Climate change risks to US infrastructure: impacts on roads, bridges, coastal development, and urban drainage

Climatic Change

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-109

  Neumann, James E ^a   Price, Jason ^a   Chinowsky, Paul ^b   Wright, Leonard ^c   Ludwig, Lindsay ^a   Streeter, Richard ^d   Jones, Russell ^d   Smith, Joel B ^d   Perkins, William ^e   Jantarasami, Lesley ^e   Martinich, Jeremy ^e  

^a Industrial Economics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^d ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^e U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CLIMATE MODELS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HIGHWAY BRIDGES; MELTING; SEA LEVEL; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; URBAN DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84933670298     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1037-4     Document Type: Article

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