Features Common to Different Hydrometeorological Events and Knowledge Integration

Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy

Volumn 9781118629574, Issue , 2014, Pages 49-81

  Zanuttigh, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disaster risk reduction measures; Hydrometeorological events; Natural disasters

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; ECOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMMON SOURCE; DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MEASURE; DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONS; HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL EVENT; KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RISK REDUCTION MEASURES; RISKS MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84927680703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118629567.ch1c     Document Type: Chapter

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