A multi-hazard regional level impact assessment for Europe combining indicators of climatic and non-climatic change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 522-536

  Lung, Tobias ^a   Lavalle, Carlo ^a   Hiederer, Roland ^a   Dosio, Alessandro ^a   Bouwer, Laurens M ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Flood; Forest fire; Heat stress; Indicator; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST FIRE; HEALTH RISK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84878015346     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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