Who is susceptible and why? An agent-based approach to assessing vulnerability to drought

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 173-185

  Krömker, Dörthe ^a   Eierdanz, Frank ^a   Stolberg, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action theory; Agent based modelling; Coping capacity; Drought; Protection capacity model; Susceptibility; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 56049087798     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-008-0049-5     Document Type: Article

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