Building vulnerability to debris flows in Taiwan: A preliminary study

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2107-2128

  Lo, Wen Chun ^a   Tsao, Ting Chi ^b   Hsu, Chih Hao ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SINOTECH ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Building content; Building structure; Debris flow; Risk analysis; Taiwan; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; DAMAGE; DEBRIS FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIELD SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84867982393     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0124-6     Document Type: Article

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