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24 Sep 2009

This publication explores the implications for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities of larger cyclonic storm surges and growing populations. The authors combine the most recent scientific and demographic information to estimate the future impact of climate change on storm surges that will strike coastal populations, economies and ecosystems, focusing on the distribution of heightened impacts.

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Author Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray, David Wheeler
Series CGD Working Papers
Issue 182
Publisher Center for Global Development (CGD)
Copyright © 2009 Center for Global Development (CGD)
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