Reconciling Development and Conservation under Coastal Squeeze from Rising Sea Level

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 361-368

  Mills, Morena ^a   Leon, Javier X ^a,b   Saunders, Megan I ^a   Bell, Justine ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   O'Mara, Julian ^c   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^a,e   Phinn, Stuart ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,d   Tulloch, Vivitskaia J D ^a   Mutafoglu, Konar ^a,f   Morrison, Tiffany ^a   Callaghan, David P ^a   Baldock, Tom ^a   Klein, Carissa J ^a   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c SEQ Catchments Ltd   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Institute for European Environmental Policy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; Climate change; defend; managed realignment; planning; priority setting; retreat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992443580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12213     Document Type: Article

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