How to get there? Assessing motorists' flash flood risk perception on daily itineraries

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-244

  Ruin, Isabelle ^a   Gaillard, Jean Christophe ^a   Lutoff, Céline ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Flash floods; Motorists; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD DAMAGE; GIS; RISK PERCEPTION; THEMATIC MAPPING; VULNERABILITY; WARNING SYSTEM;

EID: 36549021734     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envhaz.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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