Adaptation responses to climate change differ between global megacities

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 584-588

  Georgeson, Lucien ^a   Maslin, Mark ^a   Poessinouw, Martyn ^a,b   Howard, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b kMatrix Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MEGACITY; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN ECONOMY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84971221568     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2944     Document Type: Article

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