The meaning of system robustness for flood risk management

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1121-1131

  Mens, Marjolein J P ^a,b   Klijn, Frans ^a   de Bruijn, Karin M ^a   van Beek, Eelco ^a,b  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flood risk; Regime shift; Resilience; System robustness; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; FLOODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 82655173862     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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