'A dive into floods': Exploring the Dutch implementation of the floods directive

Water Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 187-207

  Van Eerd, Marjolein ^a   Dieperink, Carel ^b   Wiering, Mark ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flood risk management; Floods Directive; Meuse river basin; Policy implementation; Rhine river basin; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928881325     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.025     Document Type: Article

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