Cost estimates for flood resilience and protection strategies in New York City

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1294, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-104

  Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^a   Botzen, W J Wouter ^a   de Moel, Hans ^a   Bowman, Malcolm ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood management; Hurricane; Hurricane Sandy; NJ; NYC; Storm surge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HURRICANE; INVESTMENT; LAKE; LANDFILL; RIVER; SEA LEVEL RISE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84881504381     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12200     Document Type: Article

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