Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska

Population and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 115-133

  Hamilton, Lawrence C ^a   Saito, Kei ^a   Loring, Philip A ^b   Lammers, Richard B ^a   Huntington, Henry P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b University of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

^c Huntington Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; Climate; Climigration; Erosion; Migration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; FLOODING; POPULATION MIGRATION; RELOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIAL POLICY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84976293878     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-016-0259-6     Document Type: Article

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