Have flood mortality qualitative characteristics changed during the last decades? The case study of Greece

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 148-159

  Diakakis, Michalis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

fatalities; Flood mortality; Greece

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; DEMOGRAPHY; FLOOD; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

GREECE;

EID: 84958766359     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2016.1147412     Document Type: Article

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