Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 865-890

  de Moel, H ^a   Jongman, B ^a   Kreibich, H ^b   Merz, B ^b   Penning Rowsell, E ^c   Ward, P J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flood risk; Risk assessment; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938975135     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-015-9654-z     Document Type: Article

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