Floods and associated socioeconomic damages in China over the last century

Natural Hazards

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 401-413

  Duan, Weili ^a   He, Bin ^a   Nover, Daniel ^b   Fan, Jingli ^c   Yang, Guishan ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Meng, Huifang ^a   Liu, Chuanming ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b US Agency for International Development   (Ghana)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HUAIYIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Floods; Mann Kendall; Socioeconomic damages; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOODING; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TORRENT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; HUAI RIVER; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 84957949556     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2207-2     Document Type: Article

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