Planning for floods - Will we ever learn?

International Water Power and Dam Construction

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Clark, Colin ^a  

^a Charldon Hill Research Station   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPILLWAYS; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DESIGN STANDARD; FREEBOARD;

FLOOD CONTROL;

FLOOD CONTROL; HOUSING; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPILLWAYS; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD CONTROL; PLANNING PROCESS; SPILLWAY;

BOSCASTLE; CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745986626     PISSN: 0306400X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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