An integrated flood risk assessment model for property insurance industry in Taiwan

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1295-1309

  Hsu, Wen Ko ^a   Huang, Pei Chiung ^a   Chang, Ching Cheng ^b,c   Chen, Cheng Wu ^d   Hung, Dung Moung ^e   Chiang, Wei Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e Taiwan Asset Management Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flooding; Risk assessment; Risk management

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STATE ROLE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79961023019     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9732-9     Document Type: Article

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