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Climate proofing the Netherlands

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Regional climate change should not be seen only as a threat; changes to weather patterns could generate opportunities for large-scale innovations, say Pavel Kabat, Pier Vellinga and their colleagues.

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  1. Wageningen University and Research Centre, Environmental Sciences Group, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, The Netherlands

    Pavel Kabat, Wim van Vierssen & Jeroen Veraart

  2. Faculty of Earth Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pier Vellinga & Jeroen Aerts

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Kabat, P., van Vierssen, W., Veraart, J. et al. Climate proofing the Netherlands. Nature 438, 283–284 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438283a

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