How the dutch plan to stay dry over the next century

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 114-121

  Stive, Marcel J F ^a   Fresco, Louise O ^b   Kabat, Pavel ^c   Parmet, Bart W A H ^d   Veerman, Cees P ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coastal engineering; Floods ; Floodworks; River engineering

Indexed keywords

CASUALTY RISKS; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; FLOODWORKS; NETHERLANDS; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER FLOW; SAFETY STANDARD;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; ECONOMICS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; RIVER ENGINEERING; SAFETY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79960701397     PISSN: 0965089X     EISSN: 17517672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/cien.2011.164.3.114     Document Type: Article

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