Coastal vegetation structures and their functions in tsunami protection: Experience of the recent Indian Ocean tsunami

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-45

  Tanaka, Norio ^a   Sasaki, Yasushi ^a   Mowjood, M I M ^b   Jinadasa, K B S N ^a   Homchuen, Samang ^c  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c Khon Kaen University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Coastal vegetation; Forest structures; Pandanus odoratissimus; Rhizophora apiculata; Tsunami protection

Indexed keywords

CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA; PANDANUS ODORATISSIMUS; RHIZOPHORA APICULATA; RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 34247203693     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-006-0013-9     Document Type: Article

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