Planning resilient and sustainable cities: Identifying and targeting social vulnerability to climate change

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Ge, Yi ^a   Dou, Wen ^b   Liu, Ning ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal cities; Differences between urban and rural areas; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 85026827425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9081394     Document Type: Article

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