Assessing urban strategies for reducing the impacts of extreme weather on infrastructure networks

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Pregnolato, Maria ^a   Ford, Alistair ^a   Robson, Craig ^a   Glenis, Vassilis ^a   Barr, Stuart ^a   Dawson, Richard ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flooding; Impact; Modelling; Network; Transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967195422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160023     Document Type: Article

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