Defend or raise? Optimising flood risk reduction strategies

Abstract Flood risk reduction can be provided by interventions such as raising land or constructing flood defences. This paper introduces an approach to optimise the selection of risk reduction strategies. It expands existing economic optimization approaches for flood defences, by introducing (large...

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Main Authors: Kasper T. Lendering, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Mathijs vanLedden, Johannes K. Vrijling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12553