Floods – Are We Prepared?

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Knight, Donald ^a   Cao, Shuyou ^b   Liao, Huasheng ^b   Samuels, Paul ^c   Wright, Nigel ^d,e   Liu, Xingnian ^b   Tominaga, Akihiro ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Water Management Department   (United Kingdom)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e Institute for Water Education   (Germany)

^f NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

European R D; floods; modelling; rivers; strategic planning

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; RISK MANAGEMENT; URANIUM ALLOYS;

EUROPEAN R&D; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FLOODINGS; FLUVIALS; HYDRODYNAMIC FLOW MODELS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES; MODELING;

FLOODS;

EID: 54049099042     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2006.p0325     Document Type: Review

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