Small Islands

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part B: Regional Aspects: Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1613-1654

  Nurse, Leonard A ^a   McLean, Roger F ^b   Agard, John ^c   Briguglio, Lino Pascal ^d   Duvat Magnan, Virginie ^e   Pelesikoti, Netatua ^f   Tompkins, Emma ^g   Webb, Arthur ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^f Secretariat of the Pacific Community ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC Aquaculture Section   (Fiji)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TRANSBOUNDARY IMPACTS; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84954285561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107415386.009     Document Type: Chapter

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