Multi-criteria decision-making for flood risk management: A survey of the current state of the art

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1019-1033

  De Brito, Mariana Madruga ^a   Evers, Mariele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVEY METHOD;

EID: 84966708330     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-1019-2016     Document Type: Article

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