Fuzzy AHP for forest fire risk modeling

Disaster Prevention and Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-171

  Sharma, Laxmi Kant ^a   Kanga, Shruti ^a   Nathawat, Mahendra Singh ^a   Sinha, Suman ^a   Pandey, Prem Chandra ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cumulative Fire Risk Index; Fire; Forests; Geographic information systems; Index modelling; MCDA; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859899322     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211219964     Document Type: Article

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