Daily variation in natural disaster casualties: Information flows, safety, and opportunity costs in tornado versus hurricane strikes

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1265-1280

  Zahran, Sammy ^a,b   Tavani, Daniele ^a   Weiler, Stephan ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b #1612 Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Daily variation; Forecasting; Mortality and morbidity risk; Natural disasters; Opportunity costs

Indexed keywords

AT-RISK POPULATION; DAILY VARIATIONS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PROTECTIVE MEASURES; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR;

COSTS; DISASTERS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TORNADOES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAMAGE; DATABASE; DIURNAL VARIATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; POLICY APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TORNADO;

ARTICLE; DAILY VARIATION; DISASTER; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY RISK; NATURAL DISASTER; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; RISK;

DAILY VARIATION; FORECASTING; MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY RISK; NATURAL DISASTERS; OPPORTUNITY COSTS;

DISASTERS; HUMANS; RISK;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880102855     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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