Decision support for disaster risk management: Integrating vulnerabilities into early-warning systems

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 196, Issue , 2014, Pages 178-191

  Comes, Tina ^a   Mayag, Brice ^b   Negre, Elsa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Decision Support; Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning Systems; Resilience; Vulnerability Assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISASTERS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; METAL DRAWING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION SUPPORTS; DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; RESILIENCE; RISK-MANAGEMENT RESOURCES; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84922058609     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: 18651356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11818-5_16     Document Type: Article

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