Quantifying coastal system resilience for the US Army Corps of Engineers

Environment Systems and Decisions

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 196-208

  Rosati, Julie Dean ^a,b   Touzinsky, Katherine Flynn ^a,b   Lillycrop, W Jeff ^a  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal engineering; Holistic analysis; Multicriteria decision analysis; Resilience; Water resource infrastructure

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

JAMAICA BAY; LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930868232     PISSN: 21945403     EISSN: 21945411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-015-9548-3     Document Type: Article

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