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Estimating least-developed countries’ vulnerability to climate-related extreme events over the next 50 years
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Edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved December 4, 2009 (received for review September 10, 2009)

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- Published in issue January 26, 2010.
- Published first January 5, 2010.
Author Information
- Anthony G. Patta,1,
- Mark Tadrossb,
- Patrick Nussbaumerc,
- Kwabena Asanted,
- Marc Metzgere,f,
- Jose Rafaelg,
- Anne Goujona,h, and
- Geoff Brundriti
- a International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria;
- bClimate Systems Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;
- cInstitute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;
- d Climatus LLC, Mountain View, CA 94041;
- eCentre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, Scotland;
- fAlterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;
- gDepartment of Geography, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique;
- hVienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Vienna, Austria; and
- iDepartment of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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Edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved December 4, 2009 (received for review September 10, 2009)
Footnotes
- ↵ 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: patt{at}iiasa.ac.at.
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Author contributions: A.G.P. designed research; A.G.P., M.T., P.N., K.A., M.M., J.R., A.G., and G.B. performed research; A.G.P., M.T., P.N., K.A., A.G., and G.B. analyzed data; and A.G.P. wrote the paper.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0910253107/DCSupplemental.
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