Group decision-making approach for flood vulnerability identification using the fuzzy VIKOR method

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 863-874

  Lee, G ^a   Jun, K S ^a   Chung, E S ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FLOOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84928341111     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-863-2015     Document Type: Article

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