Preliminary flood risk assessment: The case of Athens

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 441-468

  Kandilioti, Georgia ^a   Makropoulos, Christos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Floods; GIS; Multicriteria evaluation (MCE); Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84860422159     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9930-5     Document Type: Article

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