Damage assessment of lake floods: Insured damage to private property during two lake floods in Sweden 2000/2001

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 10, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 305-314

  Grahn, Tonje ^a   Nyberg, Rolf ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Damage assessment; Damage reduction; Flood assessment; Flood damage; Insured losses; Lake flood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910068551     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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