Assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change for urban water and wastewater infrastructure management: Case study in Dong Nai river basin, Vietnam

Environmental Development

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 119-137

  Noi, Lam Vu Thanh ^a,b   Nitivattananon, Vilas ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b Vietnam Petroleum Inst   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Climate change; Integrated assessment; Urbanization; Water infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947865853     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2015.06.014     Document Type: Article

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