Natural disasters over France a 35 years assessment

Using an exhaustive administrative database, we assess the impact of extreme weather events over French cities between 1982 and 2017. We identify numerous non-catastrophic disasters, thereby improving coverage wrt. the existing literature. Counting residents of cities stricken by a disaster, we find...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolas Boccard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Weather and Climate Extremes
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094718300495