Urban Flood Risk Reduction by Increasing Green Areas for Adaptation to Climate Change

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 161, Issue , 2016, Pages 2241-2246

  Zimmermann, Erik ^a   Bracalenti, Laura ^a   Piacentini, Rubén ^a   Inostroza, Luis ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

climate change; Risk assessment; urban hydrology

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; HYDROLOGY; INVESTMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RUNOFF; STORMS; URBAN PLANNING; WATERPROOFING;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; STORM WATER RUNOFF; URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; URBAN FLOOD RISKS; URBAN HYDROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84997834641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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