Modelling environmental change: Quantification of impacts of land use and land management change on UK flood risk

System Identification, Environmental Modelling, and Control System Design

Volumn 9781430237051, Issue , 2012, Pages 449-481

  Wheater, H S ^a   Ballard, C ^a   Bulygina, N ^a   McIntyre, N ^a   Jackson, B M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOODS; LAND USE; MODEL STRUCTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD RISKS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LAND-USE MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE SCALE; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; SCALE EFFECTS; WATERS MANAGEMENTS;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84947798311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-974-1_22     Document Type: Chapter

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