Social vulnerability to river floods in Germany
Fekete, Alexander. Social vulnerability to river floods in Germany. University of Bonn, 2010.
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Sub-type Masters thesis Author Fekete, Alexander Title Social vulnerability to river floods in Germany Year 2010 University University of Bonn Department Geography Place of Publication Bonn Publisher UNU- EHS Pages 130 Language eng Abstract Alexander Fekete examines in his dissertation how social vulnerability to river floods in Germany can be characterized and measured at sub-national scale. He focuses particularly on the question of how the abstract concept of social vulnerability can be operationalized in the context of flood risk in Germany and how respective indicators might help to identify different patterns of vulnerability.This dissertation also was conducted within the framework of the Disaster Information System for Large-Scale Flood Events Using Earth Observation (DISFLOOD) project, and the results are accessible in a web-based geographical disaster information system (Natural Disasters Networking Platform).
Keyword Social vulnerability
Floods
GermanyCopyright Holder UNU-EHS Copyright Year 2010 Copyright type All rights reserved ISBN 9783939923480 -
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