Engineering: Infrastructure design issues in disaster-prone regions

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5919, 2009, Pages 1302-1303

  Guikema, Seth D ^a  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RESILIENCE; SUSTAINABILITY;

COST; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; HURRICANE; KNOWLEDGE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 62149102169     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1169057     Document Type: Short Survey

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