Exploring the relationships between urbanization trends and climate change vulnerability

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-52

  Garschagen, Matthias ^a   Romero Lankao, Patricia ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS;

CLUSTERING APPROACH; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION; LITERATURE REVIEWS; POLITICAL INTEREST; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY; VULNERABILITY REDUCTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84951895112     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0812-6     Document Type: Article

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