A landslide database for Nicaragua: A tool for landslide-hazard management

Landslides

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-176

  Devoli, Graziella ^a,c   Strauch, Wilfried ^b   Chávez, Guillermo ^b   Høeg, Kaare ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales   (Nicaragua)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Landslide database; Landslides; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547293346     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-006-0074-8     Document Type: Article

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