ResilSIM-A decision support tool for estimating resilience of urban systems

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Irwin, Sarah ^a   Schardong, Andre ^a   Simonovic, Slobodan P ^a   Nirupama, Niru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Decision support; Disaster management; Hydro meteorological; Online tool; Resilience; Urban systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FLOODS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL; ON-LINE TOOLS; RESILIENCE; URBAN SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NATURAL DISASTER; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN AREA; URBAN SYSTEM; URBANIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CANADA; ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84991109337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8090377     Document Type: Article

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