Flood Risk Management in Flanders: Past Developments and Future Challenges

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3585-3606

  Kellens, Wim ^a,b   Vanneuville, Wouter ^c   Verfaillie, Els ^d   Meire, Ellen ^a   Deckers, Pieter ^e   De Maeyer, Philippe ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Geo Solutions nv ^*  (Belgium)

^c EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

^d Havenbedrijf Gent agh   (Belgium)

^e FLANDERS HYDRAULICS RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EU Floods Directive; Flood risk management; GIS; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

CONTROL APPROACH; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; FLOOD MANAGEMENT; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FUTURE CHALLENGES; LOW-LYING REGIONS; RISK COMMUNICATION; RISK-BASED APPROACH;

COMMUNICATION; FLOOD CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

FLOODS;

EUROPEAN UNION; FLOOD CONTROL; GIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER LEVEL;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 84880046504     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0366-4     Document Type: Article

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