Quantitative methods for estimating flood fatalities: Towards the introduction of loss-of-life estimation in the assessment of flood risk

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1083-1113

  Di Mauro, Manuela ^a,b   De Bruijn, Karin M ^c   Meloni, Matteo ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Casualties; Fatalities; Flood; Flood damages; Flood risk; Impact assessment; Intangible impacts; Loss of life

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; GUIDELINE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CANADA; NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84864397506     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0207-4     Document Type: Article

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