Coping with variability and change: Floods and droughts

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 263-274

  Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W ^a   Budhakooncharoen, Saisunee ^b   Bronstert, Axel ^c   Hoff, Holger ^d   Lettenmaier, Dennis ^e   Menzel, Lucas ^d   Schulze, Roland ^f  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b MAHANAKORN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Droughts; Extreme hydrological events; Floods; Global change; Risk; Sustainable development; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; RISKS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATERSHEDS;

WATER-RELATED EXTREMES;

FLOODS;

COPING STRATEGY; DROUGHT; FLOOD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0036867669     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.00029     Document Type: Article

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