The long-term development of avalanche risk in settlements considering the temporal variability of damage potential

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 893-901

  Fuchs, S ^a   Keiler, M ^b   Zischg, A ^c   Brundl M ^d  

^a alpS Zentrum fur Naturgefahren Management   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Geo Information Management   (Italy)

^d WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AVALANCHE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 30844434546     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-5-893-2005     Document Type: Article

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