A realistic assessment of fluvial and coastal flood risk in England and Wales

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-61

  Penning Rowsell, Edmund C ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Damage; Floods; Insurance; National scale; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919865790     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12053     Document Type: Article

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