Estimating and Mapping the Direct Flood Fatality Rate for Flooding in Greater New Orleans Due To Hurricane Katrina

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 91-114

  Boyd, Ezra C ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

flood deaths; Hurricane Katrina; mortality rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885533635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1017     Document Type: Article

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