Risk Management, Adaptation, and Monetary Aspects

Flood Hazards: Impacts and Responses for the Built Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-190

  Thieken, Annegret H ^a   Cammerer, Holger ^a   Pfurtscheller, Clemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

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EID: 84896813345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b11050-17     Document Type: Chapter

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