Development of habitation vulnerability assessment framework for coastal hazards: Cuddalore coast in Tamil Nadu, India-A case study

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-57

  Saxena, S ^a   Geethalakshmi, V ^b   Lakshmanan, A ^b  

^a Tamil Nadu Government Dental Hospital   (India)

^b TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Coastal habitation; Coastline change; Composite vulnerability index; Hazard mapping

Indexed keywords

COAST; COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; EROSION; FLOODING; HAZARD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; RETURN PERIOD; SAFETY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORELINE; STORM SURGE; TSUNAMI; VULNERABILITY;

CUDDALORE; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84890120324     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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