Exposure of coastal built assets in the South Pacific to climate risks

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 992-996

  Kumar, Lalit ^a   Taylor, Subhashni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAST; COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERFACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

KIRIBATI; MARSHALL ISLANDS; TUVALU;

EID: 84945318697     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2702     Document Type: Article

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