A Relative Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Macrotidal Environments: A Case Study from the Cornwallis River Estuary, Bay of Fundy, Canada

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Corporate Author(s)/Creator(s): Saint Mary’s University, Geography Department Geological Survey of Canada
Author(s)/Creator(s): Jeremy Tibbetts D. van Proosdij¹ D. Forbes P. Giles
Date Issued: 2012-03-08
Publisher: Saint Mary’s University, Geography Department
Description: Develop a globally applicable tool, within a geographic information system (GIS) that determines the relatvive vulnerabilty of a macrotidal environment to the increased risk of storm surges associated with climate change, based on several physical and anthropogenic paraters.
Type of Document: case study
Language(s) of Resource: English
Keywords: sea level rise coastal hazards storm surges
Province: Nova Scotia New Brunswick

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