Assessing the sustainability of local resilience practices against sea level rise impacts on the lower Niger delta

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 130, Issue , 2016, Pages 221-228

  Musa, Zahrah N ^a,b   Popescu, Ioana ^a,c   Mynett, Arthur ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Politechnic   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adaptation; GIS; Niger delta; Resilience; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EROSION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MERCURY (METAL); MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SUBSIDENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION; DEGREE OF EFFECTIVENESS; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; GIS AND REMOTE SENSING; NIGER DELTA; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; RESILIENCE; SEA LEVEL RISE;

SEA LEVEL;

ADAPTATION; BAMBOO; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EROSION CONTROL; FLOOD CONTROL; GIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA;

EID: 84976365530     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.06.016     Document Type: Article

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