New Urbanist developments in flood-prone areas: Safe development, or safe development paradox?

Natural Hazards

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 605-629

  Stevens, Mark R ^a   Song, Yan ^b   Berke, Philip R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood hazards; Land use planning; New Urbanism; Safe development paradox

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951974042     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9450-8     Document Type: Article

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