Communicating the risks arising from geohazards

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 261-270

  Rosenbaum, Michael S ^a   Culshaw, Martin G ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geohazard; Geology; Risk management; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037502989     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00275     Document Type: Article

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