Validation of a social vulnerability index in context to river-floods in Germany

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-403

  Fekete, A ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FLOODING; MODEL VALIDATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; VULNERABILITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 72449120610     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-393-2009     Document Type: Article

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