The rationales of resilience in english and dutch flood risk policies

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 38-54

  Wiering, Mark ^a   Green, Colin ^b   van Rijswick, Marleen ^c   Priest, Sally ^b   Keessen, Andrea ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Flood Hazard Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood risk management; Governance; Resilience; The Netherlands; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD CONTROL; INSURANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE; NETHERLANDS; RESILIENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

FLOODS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLOOD DAMAGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENGLAND; NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84929404356     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2014.017     Document Type: Article

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