A novel assessment of the role of Danube floodplains in flood hazard reduction (FEM method)

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-50

  Schober, Bernhard ^a   Hauer, Christoph ^a   Habersack, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Flood retention; Floodplain hydrology and hydraulics; Floodplain morphology; Integrated flood risk management; Non structural flood protection measures

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DANUBE RIVER;

EID: 84961290446     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0880-y     Document Type: Article

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