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Hard choices and soft outcomes?

Asia's mega-deltas are densely populated and face multiple stressors including upstream development and sea-level rise. Adapting to these challenges requires difficult choices between hard and soft responses set within a strongly political context.

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Conway, D. Hard choices and soft outcomes?. Nature Clim Change 5, 105–106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2511

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