Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Cai, Heng ^a   Lam, Nina S N ^a   Zou, Lei ^a   Qiang, Yi ^a   Li, Kenan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal hazards; Community resilience; Disaster recovery; Lower Mississippi River Basin; Multivariate statistics; Spatial analysis; The Resilience Inference Measurement (RIM) model

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL HAZARDS; COMMUNITY RESILIENCES; DISASTER RECOVERY; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DAMAGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL HAZARD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH; LAFAYETTE PARISH; LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI BASIN; PLAQUEMINES PARISH; TERREBONNE PARISH; UNITED STATES; WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH;

EID: 84960113586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8020046     Document Type: Article

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