Understanding trends and projections of disaster losses and climate change: is vulnerability the missing link?

Climatic Change

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-35

  Mechler, Reinhard ^a   Bouwer, Laurens M ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE EXTREMES; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DYNAMIC SCENARIOS; ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY; HAZARDOUS EVENTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; RIVERINE FLOODING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84951882535     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1141-0     Document Type: Article

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