Global drivers of future river flood risk

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 381-385

  Winsemius, Hessel C ^a   Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^b,c   Van Beek, Ludovicus P H ^d   Bierkens, Marc F P ^a,d   Bouwman, Arno ^e   Jongman, Brenden ^b,c   Kwadijk, Jaap C J ^a,f   Ligtvoet, Willem ^g   Lucas, Paul L ^e   Van Vuuren, Detlef P ^a   Ward, Philip J ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FLOOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; RIVER BASIN; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84969895613     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2893     Document Type: Article

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