Evaluating the effect of flood damage-reducing measures: A case study of the unembanked area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 895-908

  de Moel, Hans ^a   van Vliet, Mathijs ^a,b   Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building codes; Damage reducing measures; Flood risk; Risk modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900859347     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0420-z     Document Type: Article

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