Integrated urban flood risk assessment – adapting a multicriteria approach to a city

Flood risk assessment is an essential part of flood risk management. As part of the new EU flood directive it is becoming increasingly more popular in European flood policy. Particularly cities with a high concentration of people and goods are vulnerable to floods. This paper introduces the adaptati...

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Main Authors: C. Kubal, D. Haase, V. Meyer, S. Scheuer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-11-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/1881/2009/nhess-9-1881-2009.pdf