Flood risk, climate change and settlement development: a micro-scale assessment of Austrian municipalities

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 311-322

  Löschner, Lukas ^a   Herrnegger, Mathew ^a   Apperl, Benjamin ^a   Senoner, Tobias ^a   Seher, Walter ^a   Nachtnebel, Hans Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood damage; Flood risk assessment; Hazard exposure; Settlement development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976486253     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1009-0     Document Type: Article

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