Modelling coastal vulnerability: design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods
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Main Author: Marchand, M., (Marcel) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam IOS Press ©2009
Series:Deltares select series v. 5
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Title page; Preface; Contents; Summary; Samenvatting; Introduction; Coastal hazards, damage and human suffering; Coastal vulnerability and disaster management; The need for new knowledge and tools; The differential nature of vulnerability; Research objective; Research questions; The research strategy; Structure of the thesis; Part 1: Describing the Experience; Design and application of an Expert Decision Support System (EDSS) for coastal Andhra Pradesh; Part 2: Literature Study; Defining vulnerability; Choices in integrated modelling; Policy Analysis: linking context with content
Models that explore vulnerability under various planned and unplanned conditions hardly exist. This title focuses on the vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 247 pages)
ISBN:1607505215
9781607505211

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