Sink or swim: Alternative approaches to flood disaster reconstruction and mitigation

River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding People and Place

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 418-445

  Wenger, Caroline ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; China; Dongting lake; Ecosystem approaches; Flood hazard mitigation; Floodplains; Land swap; Legislation; Levees; Murray darling basin; New south wales; Polders; Post disaster reconstruction; Queensland; Regge river; Risk assessment; Sea level rise; The netherlands; USA; Victoria; Wetland; Yangtze river; room for river measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964225454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b17168     Document Type: Chapter

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