Accounting for variability in commercial flood damage estimation

Australian Geographer

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-222

  Gissing, Andrew ^a   Blong, Russell ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Commercial damage; Environmental economics; Flood; Flood damage; Loss estimation; Stage damage analysis

Indexed keywords

COST; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLOOD DAMAGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KEMPSEY; NEW SOUTH WALES; WORLD;

EID: 9444263036     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0004918042000249511     Document Type: Article

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