A fuzzy multi-criteria approach to flood risk vulnerability in South Korea by considering climate change impacts

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1003-1013

  Jun, Kyung Soo ^a   Chung, Eun Sung ^b   Kim, Young Gyu ^b   Kim, Yeonjoo ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Korea Environment Institute (KEI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood risk vulnerability; Fuzzy TOPSIS; South Korea; SRES

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EMISSION SCENARIO; FLOOD RISKS; FUTURE CLIMATE; FUZZY TOPSIS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PROXY VARIABLES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOUTH KOREA; SRES; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WEIGHTED SUM METHOD;

CLIMATE MODELS; FLOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84870242211     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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