Flood vulnerability and risk assessment with spatial multi-criteria evaluation

Dhaka Megacity: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 177-202

  Masuya, Akiko ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Community; Coping capacity; Flood hazard; GIS; Modelling; Risk assessment; Spatial multi criteria evaluation; Vulnerability assessment; Weighted linear combination (WLC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009346584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6735-5_10     Document Type: Chapter

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