Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 364-370

  Hino, Miyuki ^a   Field, Christopher B ^a   Mach, Katharine J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD;

EID: 85018766539     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3252     Document Type: Article

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