Enhancing flood risk system robustness in practice: Insights from two river valleys

International Journal of River Basin Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 297-304

  Mens, Marjolein J P ^a,b   Klijn, Frans ^a   Schielen, Ralph M J ^b,c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c River Forecasting Service   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

flood risk; resilience; System robustness; uncertainty; variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937525299     PISSN: 15715124     EISSN: 18142060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15715124.2014.936876     Document Type: Article

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