Applications of risk assessment in the development of climate change adaptation policy

Restoring Our Natural Habitat - Proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Alkhaled, A A ^a   Michalak, A M ^a   Bulkley, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SEA LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

ADAPTATION SCENARIOS; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION AVAILABILITY; MULTIPLICITY RESULTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; THRESHOLD EXCEEDANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85087244896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40927(243)77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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