Climate-related flood risks and urban responses in the Pearl River Delta, China

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 379-391

  Yang, Liang ^a,b   Scheffran, Jürgen ^a   Qin, Huapeng ^c   You, Qinglong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b School of Integrated Climate System Sciences   (Germany)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change impact; Flood hazard; Pearl River Delta; Response strategy; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939874311     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0651-7     Document Type: Article

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