Social capacities for drought risk management in Switzerland

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3429-3441

  Kruse, S ^a   Seidl, I ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY MAKING; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84891114374     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-3429-2013     Document Type: Article

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