Assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to coastal hazards in the Caribbean Region

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 473-478

  Lam, Nina S N ^a   Arenas, Helbert ^b   Brito, Patricia L ^c   Liu, Kam Biu ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

climate change impacts; Resilience; sustainability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84938967394     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI70-080.1     Document Type: Article

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