Increasing flood risk under climate change: a pan-European assessment of the benefits of four adaptation strategies

Climatic Change

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 507-521

  Alfieri, Lorenzo ^a   Feyen, Luc ^a   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CATASTROPHIC FLOODS; FLOOD PROTECTION; FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENTS; PAN-EUROPEAN ASSESSMENTS; RECOVERY PROCESS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; WATER RETENTION;

FLOODS;

ADAPTATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; FLOODING; GLOBAL WARMING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; PEAK FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY; WATER RETENTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84960124967     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1641-1     Document Type: Article

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