A new approach to flood vulnerability assessment for historic buildings in England

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1035-1048

  Stephenson, V ^a   D'Ayala, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84900456163     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-1035-2014     Document Type: Article

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