Spatial modelling of social and economic vulnerability to floods at the district level in Búzi, Mozambique

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2001-2019

  Kienberger, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

GIScience; Integrated methods; Remote Sensing; Spatial modelling; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VULNERABILITY;

BUZI; MOZAMBIQUE; SOFALA;

EID: 84867997047     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0174-9     Document Type: Article

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