Brief communication: Rethinking the 1998 China floods to prepare for a nonstationary future

A mega-flood in 1998 caused tremendous losses in China and triggered major policy adjustments in flood-risk management. This paper aims to retrospectively examine these policy adjustments and discuss how China should adapt to newly emerging flood challenges. We show that China suffers annually from...

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Published in:Natural hazards and earth system sciences 2019-04, Vol.19 (3), p.715-719
Main Authors: Du, Shiqiang, Cheng, Xiaotao, Huang, Qingxu, Chen, Ruishan, Ward, Philip J, Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H
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