Towards seaport resilience for climate change adaptation: Stakeholder perceptions of hurricane impacts in Gulfport (MS) and Providence (RI)

Progress in Planning

Volumn 99, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-49

  Becker, Austin Howard ^a   Matson, Pamela ^b   Fischer, Martin ^b   Mastrandrea, Michael D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Unit for Greenhouse Gas Inventories   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Disasters; Impact assessment; Resilience; Seaports; Stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937643573     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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