Spatiotemporal dynamics: The need for an innovative approach in mountain hazard risk management

Natural Hazards

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1217-1241

  Fuchs, Sven ^a   Keiler, Margreth ^b   Sokratov, Sergey ^c   Shnyparkov, Alexander ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mountain hazards; Risk assessment; Risk management; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURAL HAZARD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALPS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84884533235     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0508-7     Document Type: Article

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