Assessment of extreme weather events on transport networks: Case study of the 2007 wildfires in Peloponnesus

Natural Hazards

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 87-107

  Mitsakis, Evangelos ^a   Stamos, Iraklis ^a   Papanikolaou, Anestis ^a   Aifadopoulou, Georgia ^a   Kontoes, Haris ^b  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extreme weather event impacts; Peloponnesus 2007 wildfires; Transport networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; ROAD TRANSPORT; WEATHER; WILDFIRE;

GREECE; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 84897376151     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0896-3     Document Type: Article

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