Incorporating stakeholders' knowledge into assessing vulnerability to climatic hazards: Application to the river basin management in Taiwan

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 491-507

  Hung, Hung Chih ^a   Chen, Ling Yeh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; INTEGRATED RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENTS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT; RIVER BASIN PLANNING; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

DECISION THEORY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HAZARDS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VULNERABILITY;

TACHIA RIVER; TAIWAN;

TACHIA;

EID: 84881611105     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0819-z     Document Type: Article

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