Interaction between land-use change, flooding and human health in Metro Vancouver, Canada

Natural Hazards

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1219-1230

  Owrangi, Amin M ^a   Lannigan, Robert ^b   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flood; Health; Land use change; Remote sensing; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; LAND USE CHANGE; NDVI; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER DELTA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

EID: 84899975948     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1064-0     Document Type: Article

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