Vulnerability to natural disasters in Serbia: Spatial and temporal comparison

Natural Hazards

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 945-968

  Kovačević Majkić, Jelena ^a   Panić, Milena ^a   Miljanović, Dragana ^a   Miletić, Radmila ^a  

^a SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Demographic economic indicators; Natural disasters; Serbia; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

GIS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY;

SERBIA;

EID: 84899845780     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1045-3     Document Type: Article

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