Resilience and brittleness in the ALERTA RIO system: A field study about the decision-making of forecasters

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1831-1847

  Dolif, Giovanni ^a   Engelbrecht, Andre ^b   Jatobá, Alessandro ^b   da Silva, Antônio José Dias ^b   Gomes, José Orlando ^b   Borges, Marcos R S ^b   Nobre, Carlos A ^a   de Carvalho, Paulo Victor R ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision making of forecasters; Early warning system; Heavy rainfall; Resilience engineering

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ENGINEERING; NATURAL DISASTER; RAINFALL; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

BRAZIL; LATIN AMERICA; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84871936712     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0448-2     Document Type: Article

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