Assessment of the casualty risk of multiple meteorological hazards in China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Xu, Wei ^a   Zhuo, Li ^b   Zheng, Jing ^c   Ge, Yi ^d   Gu, Zhihui ^e   Tian, Yugang ^f  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guangdong Climate Center   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Casualty; China; Exceedance probability; Information diffusion; Meteorological hazard; Risk of multiple hazards

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENT; CHINA; DIFFUSION; DISASTER; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE; TOPOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA;

CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; METEOROLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS;

EID: 84958787519     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph13020222     Document Type: Article

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