A Comparative Study on Physical Vulnerability of Urban Area against Natural Hazards: Importance of Health Promoting Approach in Civil Engineering

A Comparative Study on Physical Vulnerability of Urban Area against Natural Hazards: Importance of Health Promoting Approach in Civil Engineering

Background: Estimation of urban vulnerability to earthquakes can be considered as an Ill-structured problem in urban in both unplanned and planned ar-eas. Multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) provides a way to integrate different spatial data layers in a geographic information system to create composite...

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Main Authors: Mohsen Ahadnezhad Reveshty, Mohammad Javad Kamelifar, Behzad Ranjbarnia, Alireza Pashaiifar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2014-07-01
Series:Health Promotion Perspectives
Subjects:
Population health
Urban tissue
Physical vulnerability
MCE
Fuzzy approach
Online Access:http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/HPP/Manuscript/HPP-4-122.pdf

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