Regionalized Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: narratives and spatial population projections for the Mediterranean coastal zone

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 235-245

  Reimann, Lena ^a   Merkens, Jan Ludolf ^a   Vafeidis, Athanasios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coastal zone; Mediterranean; Narratives; Scenarios; Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs); Spatial population projections

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025097123     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1189-2     Document Type: Article

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