Millions projected to be at risk from sea-level rise in the continental United States

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 691-695

  Hauer, Mathew E ^a   Evans, Jason M ^b   Mishra, Deepak R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INTERNAL MIGRATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VULNERABILITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84975889785     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2961     Document Type: Article

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