Taming global flood disasters. Lessons learned from Dutch experience

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1217-1225

  Zevenbergen, Chris ^a,b   van Herk, Sebastiaan ^a,b   Rijke, Jeroen ^a,b   Kabat, Pavel ^c   Bloemen, Pieter ^d   Ashley, Richard ^b,e   Speers, Andrew ^f   Gersonius, Berry ^b   Veerbeek, William ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d University of Sheffield ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f Australian Water Association   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive delta management; Flood disasters; Multi level governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871939419     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0439-3     Document Type: Letter

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