Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1899-1908

  Ge, Yi ^a   Dou, Wen ^b   Gu, Zhihui ^c   Qian, Xin ^a   Wang, Jinfei ^d   Xu, Wei ^e,f   Shi, Peijun ^e,f   Ming, Xiaodong ^e,f   Zhou, Xin ^a   Chen, Yuan ^g  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Information Center of Ministry of Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Natural hazards; Projection pursuit cluster model; Social vulnerability index; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL HAZARD; PER CAPITA INCOME; PROJECTION PURSUIT CLUSTER MODELS; REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY INDEX; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

DISASTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

HAZARDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INCOME; NATURAL HAZARD; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; JIANGSU; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84885021468     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-013-0725-y     Document Type: Article

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