Shoreline armoring, risk management, and coastal resilience under rising seas

Coastal Management

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 634-653

  Kittinger, John N ^a   Ayers, Adam L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Armoring; Coastal zone management; Erosion; Natural hazard; Resilience; Shoreline; Socialecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006671282     PISSN: 08920753     EISSN: 15210421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2010.529038     Document Type: Article

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