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Economic Risk of Flooding: A Case Study for the Glomma River, Norway

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Recurring extreme floods during recent decades [50] make many believe that the flood danger is greater today than ever before. Indeed, floods (and drought) cause more damage and kill more people than any other natural disaster [37, 25]. In what way has the situation become worse? Is it a result of more frequent floods with higher magnitude or is it the vulnerability of our society to floods that has increased?

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  1. Dep. of Geophysics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1022, Blindern, N-0315, Oslo, Norway

    Lars Gottschalk

  2. Dept. of Earth Sciences, Hydrology, University of Uppsala, Villavagen 16, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    Irina Krasovskaia

  3. Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), P.O.Box, 173 Kjelsås, N-0411, Oslo

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Gottschalk, L., Krasovskaia, I., Stælthun, N.R. (2002). Economic Risk of Flooding: A Case Study for the Glomma River, Norway. In: Bolgov, M.V., Gottschalk, L., Krasovskaia, I., Moore, R.J. (eds) Hydrological Models for Environmental Management. NATO Science Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0470-1_18

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