Assessing impacts and responses to global-mean sea-level rise

• Main Authors: Nicholls, Robert J., Tol, Richard S.J., Hall, Jim W.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Lowe; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/6930f4b1-4ced-4b9d-b571-bbb398658b4d; https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619472.013; http://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/6930f4b1-4ced-4b9d-b571-bbb398658b4d; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51649086924&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=51649086924&partnerID=8YFLogxK

One of the more certain impacts of human-induced climate change is a rise in global-mean sea level (Nicholls and Lowe, 2004). While the impacts of this sea-level rise are confined to coastal areas, these include the most densely populated land areas on Earth and they support important and productive...