Empirical estimate of vulnerability relations for use in snow avalanche risk assessment

Management Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue , 2004, Pages 533-542

  Barbolini, M ^a   Cappabianca, F ^a   Sailer, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Austrian Inst Avalanche/Torrent R   (Austria)

Author keywords

Risk; Snow avalanches; Study cases; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LAND USE; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SNOW;

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (IUGS); SNOW AVALANCHES; STUDY CASES; VULNERABILITY RELATIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 11844296122     PISSN: 14706326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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