Let us create flood hazard maps for developing countries

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 841-843

  Hagen, Emlyn ^a   Lu, X X ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Flood hazard maps; Flood mitigation; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; HAZARD; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; MITIGATION;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 79961031629     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9750-7     Document Type: Article

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