Assessment of flood hazard areas at a regional scale using an index-based approach and Analytical Hierarchy Process: Application in Rhodope-Evros region, Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 538, Issue , 2015, Pages 555-563

  Kazakis, Nerantzis ^a   Kougias, Ioannis ^b   Patsialis, Thomas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytical Hierarchy Process; Flood hazards; Flood prone areas; GIS analysis; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; LAND USE; MAPPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; FLOOD HAZARD INDEXES; FLOOD HAZARDS; FLOOD PRONE AREA; GIS ANALYSIS; INTERESTING INFORMATION; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; RAINFALL INTENSITY;

FLOODS;

RAIN;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOOD; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; MAPPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLOOD HAZARD INDEX; FLOODING; GEOLOGY; GREECE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAND DRAINAGE; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER FLOW;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EVROS; GREECE; RHODOPE;

EID: 84956825673     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.055     Document Type: Article

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