A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 35, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Moghadas, Mahsa ^a   Asadzadeh, Asad ^a   Vafeidis, Athanasios ^b   Fekete, Alexander ^c   Kötter, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c TH Köln University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

AHP; Composite indicator; Tehran; TOPSIS; Urban flood resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061718008     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101069     Document Type: Article

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