Developing partnership approaches for flood risk management: implementation of inter-local co-operations in Austria

Water International

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1018-1029

  Thaler, Thomas ^a,b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

catchment management plan; flood risk management; governance; institutions; partnership arrangements; risk prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919626895     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2014.992720     Document Type: Article

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