Risk assessment and mapping of extreme floods in non-dyked communities along the Elbe and Mulde Rivers
Assessing and mapping damage risk of floods for large river basins is still in its infancy. Damage risk is understood to be the combination of flood hazard and the vulnerability of communities to a flood of a particular return period. Risk is calculated and mapped for two communities in which dykes...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2006-01-01
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| Series: | Advances in Geosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.adv-geosci.net/9/15/2006/adgeo-9-15-2006.pdf |