Vulnerability assessment including tangible and intangible components in the index composition: An Amazon case study of flooding and flash flooding

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 630, Issue , 2018, Pages 903-912

  Andrade, Milena Marília Nogueira de ^a   Szlafsztein, Claudio Fabian ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Collective action; Disaster; Mixed methods; Natural hazard; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; HAZARDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CASE-STUDIES; COLLECTIVE ACTION; EXTREME EVENTS; FLASH FLOODING; FLOODINGS; MIXED METHOD; NATURAL HAZARD; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; VULNERABILITY INDEX;

RISK PERCEPTION;

CENSUS; EXTREME EVENT; FLASH FLOOD; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; AMAZONAS (BRAZIL); ARTICLE; CITY; COMMUNITY; EXPOSURE; FLASH FLOODING; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; RISK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY; DISASTER; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; SANTAREM [PARA];

EID: 85042724211     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.271     Document Type: Article

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