The flood of June 2013 in Germany: How much do we know about its impacts?

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1519-1540

  Thieken, Annegret H ^a   Bessel, Tina ^b,f   Kienzler, Sarah ^a   Kreibich, Heidi ^c,f   Müller, Meike ^d   Pisi, Sebastian ^e   Schröter, Kai ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d NatCat Center   (Germany)

^e UN Campus   (Germany)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH IMPACT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84977098341     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-1519-2016     Document Type: Article

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