An integrated regionalization of earthquake, flood, and drought hazards in China

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-44

  Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Wise, Stephen ^b   Haining, Robert ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EARTHQUAKES; FLOODS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLASSIFIEDS; COMBINED STATE; DATA SET; DATAFILES; HAZARD MONITORING; REGIONALISATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ASSOCIATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL DATA;

HAZARDS;

CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DROUGHT; EARTHQUAKE; FLOOD; GIS; HAZARD MONITORING; NATURAL HAZARD;

CHINA;

EID: 0031427544     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.1997.tb00003.x     Document Type: Article

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