Issues and challenges in flood risk management-Editorial for the special issue on flood risk management

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 785-792

  Jonkman, Sebastiaan N ^a   Dawson, Richard J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenges; Flood management; Flood risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878699221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w4040785     Document Type: Editorial

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