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Coastal Sea Levels, Impacts, and Adaptation

Thomas Wahl    
Sally Brown    
Ivan D. Haigh and Jan Even Øie Nilsen    

Resumen

Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a great threat to approximately 10% of the world?s population residing in low-elevation coastal zones (i.e., land located up to 10 m of present-day mean sea-level (MSL))[...]

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