Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1361-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1361-2014
Research article
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28 May 2014
Research article |  | 28 May 2014

Flood risk assessment: concepts, modelling, applications

G. Tsakiris

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