Climate change uncertainty: Building flexibility into water and flood risk infrastructure

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 411-423

  Gersonius, Berry ^a   Ashley, Richard ^a,b   Pathirana, Assela ^a   Zevenbergen, Chris ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; INVESTMENTS;

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; FLOOD PROTECTION; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 84871432852     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0494-5     Document Type: Article

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