Debates - Perspectives on socio-hydrology: Modeling flood risk as a public policy problem

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4782-4788

  Gober, Patricia ^a,b   Wheater, Howard S ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

decision making under uncertainty; floodplain management; knowledge translation; natural hazards; simulation modeling; socio hydrology

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; HAZARDS; HYDROLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERWORKS;

BIOPHYSICAL PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL HAZARD; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

FLOODS;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODPLAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEMORY; NATURAL HAZARD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC SERVICE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937526312     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR016945     Document Type: Article

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