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11 - Sea Level Rise and Future Earth

from Part III - Future Earth and the Earth’s Fluid Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2018

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Anny Cazenave  and
Hindumathi Palanisamy
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Tom Beer ,
Jianping Li  and
Keith Alverson
Tom Beer
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IUGG Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC)
Jianping Li
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Beijing Normal University
Keith Alverson
Affiliation:
UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre
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Global Change and Future Earth
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