A risk management tool for tackling country-wide contingent disasters: A case study on Madagascar

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-55

  Hochrainer Stigler, Stefan ^a   Mechler, Reinhard ^a   Mochizuki, Junko ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Catastrophe modeling; CatSim; Disaster risk management; Economic impacts; Financial vulnerability; Natural catastrophes

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STORMS;

CATASTROPHE MODEL; CATSIM; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; FINANCIAL VULNERABILITY; NATURAL CATASTROPHES;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; VULNERABILITY;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84936947252     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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