Forest cover, socioeconomics, and reported flood frequency in developing countries

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ferreira, Susana ^a   Ghimire, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD PLAINS; FOREST COVER; HUMAN IMPACT; LAND-USE CHANGE; NATURAL FORESTS; SAMPLE SELECTION; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK MANAGEMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

FLOODS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETATION COVER;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CITIES; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLOODS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

EID: 84865959898     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011701     Document Type: Article

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