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Responding to the Challenges of Flood Risk from extreme events: perspectives from Mexico, Chile, Spain and UK; Guest Editors: Adrián Pedrozo Acuña, Gareth Pender and Dominic Reeve

Event-based approach for probabilistic flood risk assessment

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Pages 377-389 | Received 20 May 2013, Accepted 06 Sep 2013, Published online: 25 Oct 2013

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