Towards coastal risk management in the Nile delta

Proceedings of the 10th Global Congress on ICM: Lessons Learned to Address New Challenges, EMECS 2013 - MEDCOAST 2013 Joint Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 623-634

  Eldeberky, Yasser ^a,b  

^a CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE   (Egypt)

^b Faculty of Engineering at Mataria Helwan University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

COASTAL LOWLAND; COASTAL RISKS; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NATURAL HAZARD; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEVERE STORMS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84900848510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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