Assessing vulnerability: an integrated approach for mapping adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure

Climatic Change

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 615-629

  Weis, Shawn W Margles ^a   Agostini, Vera N ^a   Roth, Lynnette M ^a   Gilmer, Ben ^a   Schill, Steven R ^a   Knowles, John English ^a   Blyther, Ruth ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; MAPPING;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATE; SOCIAL SENSITIVITIES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY; VULNERABILITY INDEX;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURAL HAZARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; VULNERABILITY;

GRENADA [WINDWARD ISLANDS]; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

EID: 84961135315     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1642-0     Document Type: Article

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