Mountain torrents: Quantifying vulnerability and assessing uncertainties

Engineering Geology

Volumn 155, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-44

  Totschnig, Reinhold ^a,b   Fuchs, Sven ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b EB and P Umweltbüro GmbH   (Austria)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

European Alps; Mountain hazards; Quantitative risk assessment; Uncertainties; Validation; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN ALPS; MOUNTAIN HAZARD; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTIES; VALIDATION; VULNERABILITY;

BUILDINGS; CURVE FITTING; HAZARDS; LANDFORMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FUNCTIONS;

MULTISTOREY BUILDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ALPS;

EID: 84875389709     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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