Economically efficient standards to protect the netherlands against flooding

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Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-21

  Eijgenraam, Carel ^a   Kind, Jarl ^b   Bak, Carlijn ^b   Brekelmans, Ruud ^c   Den Hertog, Dick ^c   Duits, Matthijs ^d   Roos, Kees ^e   Vermeer, Pieter ^f   Kuijken, Wim ^g  

^a CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d HKV CONSULTANTS   (Netherlands)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment DG Water   (Netherlands)

^g Delta Commissioner   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Decision support system; Flood protection standards; MINLP; Monte Carlo analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893851565     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2013.0721     Document Type: Article

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