Assessment on agricultural drought vulnerability in the Yellow River basin based on a fuzzy clustering iterative model

Natural Hazards

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 919-936

  Wu, Di ^a   Yan, Deng Hua ^a   Yang, Gui Yu ^a   Wang, Xiao Gang ^a   Xiao, Wei Hua ^a   Zhang, Hai Tao ^a  

^a CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation capacity; Agricultural drought; Fuzzy clustering iterative model; Sensitivity; Vulnerability assessment; Yellow River basin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DROUGHT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; IRRIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84877016754     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0617-y     Document Type: Article

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