Adaptive flood risk management planning based on a comprehensive flood risk conceptualisation

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 845-864

  Klijn, Frans ^a   Kreibich, Heidi ^b   de Moel, Hans ^c   Penning Rowsell, Edmund ^d  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive delta management; Delta programme; Exposure; Flood risk; Future scenarios; Robustness; Spatial planning; the Netherlands; Tipping points; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DELTA; FLOOD CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL PLANNING; VULNERABILITY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84938949641     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-015-9638-z     Document Type: Article

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