Dealing with uncertainty in flood risk assessment of dike rings in the Netherlands

Natural Hazards

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 191-206

  Van Der Most, Herman ^a   Wehrung, Mark ^b  

^a WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dike rings; Failure modes; Flood risk; Flooding probability; The Netherlands; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22844439025     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-4548-5     Document Type: Article

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