Validation of a social vulnerability index in context to river-floods in Germany
Social vulnerability indices are a means for generating information about people potentially affected by disasters that are e.g. triggered by river-floods. The purpose behind such an index is in this study the development and the validation of a social vulnerability map of population characteristics...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/393/2009/nhess-9-393-2009.pdf |
