Economic and social impacts of landslides

Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 573-587

  Kjekstad, Oddvar ^a   Highland, Lynn ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct costs; Fatalities; Indirect costs; Insurance; Landslide; Risk; Socio economic losses; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

INSURANCE; INVESTMENTS; LAND USE; LANDSLIDES; LOSSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS;

DIRECT COSTS; FATALITIES; INDIRECT COSTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; VULNERABILITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 78649442178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69970-5_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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