An overview to flood vulnerability assessment methods

Sustainable Water Resources Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 331-336

  Nasiri, Hajar ^a   Mohd Yusof, Mohd Johari ^a   Mohammad Ali, Thamer Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Flood management; Flood risk; Flood vulnerability assessment; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS; ASSESSING METHOD; COMPUTER MODELING; CURVE METHOD; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; FLOOD VULNERABILITIES; FOUR-GROUP;

FLOODS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FLOOD CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 85088107369     PISSN: 23635037     EISSN: 23635045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40899-016-0051-x     Document Type: Article

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