Coastal and riverine ecosystems as adaptive flood defenses under a changing climate

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1087-1094

  van Wesenbeeck, Bregje K ^a,b   de Boer, Wiebe ^a   Narayan, Siddharth ^c   van der Star, Wouter R L ^a   de Vries, Mindert B ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Climate change adaptation; Flood risk management; Levees; Mangroves; Nature based coastal defense; Riparian forest; SWAN VEG

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; FLOOD CONTROL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LEVEE; MANGROVE; RIPARIAN FOREST; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE HEIGHT;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84964397411     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-016-9714-z     Document Type: Article

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