Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards

Climate Extremes and Society

Volumn 9780521870283, Issue , 2008, Pages 279-295

  Cutter, Susan L ^a   Gall, Melanie ^a   Emrich, Christopher T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; PUBLIC RISKS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

CLIMATE HAZARDS; DATA COMPILATION; DISASTER MITIGATION; LOSS ESTIMATION; METADATA STANDARDS; MITIGATION PLANS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA;

HAZARDS;

EID: 68949216093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535840.016     Document Type: Chapter

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