Assessing market and non-market costs of freshwater flooding due to climate change in the community of Fredericton, Eastern Canada

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 347-372

  Lantz, Van ^a   Trenholm, Ryan ^a   Wilson, Jeff ^a   Richards, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; FLOODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATER;

ANNUAL AVERAGE; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CONTINGENT VALUATION METHODS; EASTERN CANADA; EXTREME EVENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGIC ANALYSIS; SAINT JOHN RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINGENT VALUATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; FRESHWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MARKET SYSTEM;

CANADA; FREDERICTON; NEW BRUNSWICK; SAINT JOHN RIVER;

EID: 85027940702     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0063-3     Document Type: Article

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