Social vulnerability to coastal and inland flood hazards: A comparison of GIS-based spatial interpolation methods

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 58-79

  Montgomery, Marilyn C ^a   Chakraborty, Jayajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal Interpolation; Coastal Hazards; Dasymetric Mapping; Environmental Justice; Flood; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Risk; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887472995     PISSN: 19479654     EISSN: 19479662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jagr.2013070104     Document Type: Article

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