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Predicting tourism flows under climate change

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Bigano

  2. Institute for Forest Economics and Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

    Jacqueline M. Hamilton

  3. Department of Economics, Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK

    David J. Maddison

  4. Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland

    Richard S. J. Tol

  5. Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

    Richard S. J. Tol

  6. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Richard S. J. Tol

  7. Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Richard S. J. Tol

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Bigano, A., Hamilton, J.M., Maddison, D.J. et al. Predicting tourism flows under climate change. Climatic Change 79, 175–180 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9190-7

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