A flood risk assessment to municipal infrastructure due to changing climate part I: methodology

Urban Water Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-30

  Bowering, Elisabeth A ^a   Peck, Angela M ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; flood risk assessment; floodplain management; risk mitigation; spatial risk

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; PLANNING METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84887882577     PISSN: 1573062X     EISSN: 17449006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2012.758293     Document Type: Article

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