Flood hazard and damage assessment in the Ebro Delta (NW Mediterranean) to relative sea level rise

Natural Hazards

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1301-1321

  Alvarado Aguilar, Dagoberto ^a,b   Jiménez, José A ^a,b   Nicholls, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b International Centre of Coastal Resources Research   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flooding; Risk; RSLR; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VULNERABILITY;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

EID: 84861655178     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0149-x     Document Type: Article

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