Planning emergency shelter locations based on evacuation behavior

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1551-1571

  Chang, Hsueh Sheng ^a   Liao, Chin Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Emergency shelters; Evacuation behavior; Geographic information systems; Space syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925500576     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1557-x     Document Type: Article

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