Landscape analysis and tsunami damage in Aceh: Comment on Iverson and Prasad (2007)

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-5

  Baird, Andrew H ^a   Kerr, Alexander M ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

Author keywords

Coastal forests; Indian Ocean Tsunami; Statistics; Tsunami mitigation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL ZONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MITIGATION; MODELING; PREDICTION; STORM DAMAGE; TREE; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; ATJEH; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 37349129597     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9152-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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