Mitigation of repetitively flooded homes in New Orleans, Louisiana

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2009, Pages 365-376

  Mattei, N J ^a   Stack, S ^a   Farris, M ^a   Adeinat, I ^a   Laska, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood mitigation; Floodplain management; Repetitive flood loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862281722     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ECO090341     Document Type: Article

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