Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 953-965

  Kreibich, Heidi ^a   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^b   Vorogushyn, Sergiy ^a   Aerts, Jeroen C J H ^c   Apel, Heiko ^a   Aronica, Giuseppe T ^d   Arnbjerg Nielsen, Karsten ^e   Bouwer, Laurens M ^f   Bubeck, Philip ^g   Caloiero, Tommaso ^h   Chinh, Do T ^a   Cortès, Maria ⁱ   Gain, Animesh K ^a   Giampá, Vincenzo ^j   Kuhlicke, Christian ^k   Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W ^l   Llasat, Maria Carmen ⁱ   Mård, Johanna ^b   Matczak, Piotr ^m   Mazzoleni, Maurizio ⁿ   Molinari, Daniela ^o   Dung, Nguyen V ^a   Petrucci, Olga ^j   Schröter, Kai ^a   Slager, Kymo ^f   Thieken, Annegret H ^g   Ward, Philip J ^c   Merz, Bruno ^a   more..

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^h CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^k HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^l INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENVIRONMENT   (Poland)

^m ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

ⁿ UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^o POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

adaptation; flooding; global environmental change; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 85033721818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017EF000606     Document Type: Article

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