Vulnerability and risk of deltaic social-ecological systems exposed to multiple hazards

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 631-632, Issue , 2018, Pages 71-80

  Hagenlocher, Michael ^a   Renaud, Fabrice G ^a,b   Haas, Susanne ^a   Sebesvari, Zita ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon delta; Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna delta; Indicator library; Mekong delta; Multi hazard; Spatial assessment

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

AMAZON DELTA; BRAHMAPUTRA; GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA-MEGHNA DELTA; INDICATOR LIBRARY; MEGHNA DELTA; MEKONG DELTA; MULTI-HAZARDS; RISK-ADAPTATION; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ASSESSMENT;

HAZARDS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DELTA; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FLOODING; GLOBAL DELTA RISK INDEX; HAZARD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HURRICANE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SALINITY; STORM SURGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN;

AMAZONIA; GANGES DELTA; MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 85042852293     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.013     Document Type: Article

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