Living behind dikes: Mimicking flooding experiences

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 866-876

  Zaalberg, Ruud ^a   Midden, Cees J H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion; Flooding experience; Presence; Simulation; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; FLOODING EXPERIENCES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; PRESENCE; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD INSURANCE; FLOODS; LEVEES; MOTIVATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIKE; FLOOD; FLOODING; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MIMICRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FLOODING; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FLOODS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84877605799     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01868.x     Document Type: Article

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