Strategic coastal flood-risk management in practice: Actors' perspectives on the integration of flood risk management in London and the Thames Estuary

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 636-645

  McFadden, Loraine ^a   Penning Rowsell, Edmund ^a   Tapsell, Sue ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; COASTAL FLOODS; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; ON CURRENTS; STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT;

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOOD CONTROL; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450230451     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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