Prioritization of disaster risk in a community using GIS

Natural Hazards

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-29

  Armenakis, Costas ^a   Nirupama, N ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disaster risk; GIS; Mitigation strategies; Resilience; Spatial analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MITIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VULNERABILITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84873433959     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0167-8     Document Type: Article

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