Adapting to climate change: A comparison of two strategies for dike heightening

Natural Hazards

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-228

  Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a   Kok, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Flood defence; Rhine; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; LEVEE; PEAK DISCHARGE; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE BASIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53149101305     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9213-y     Document Type: Article

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