Exploring multicriteria flood vulnerability by integrating economic, social and ecological dimensions of flood risk and coping capacity: From a starting point view towards an end point view of vulnerability

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 731-751

  Scheuer, Sebastian ^a   Haase, Dagmar ^a   Meyer, Volker ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping capacity; Flood vulnerability; Multicriteria analysis; Risk

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FLOOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

GERMANY; LEIPZIG; SAXONY;

EID: 79959759429     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9666-7     Document Type: Article

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