Modelling coastal vulnerability [[electronic resource] ] : design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods / / door Marcel Marchand
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Marchand M (Marcel)
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| Titolo: |
Modelling coastal vulnerability [[electronic resource] ] : design and evaluation of a vulnerability model for tropical storms and floods / / door Marcel Marchand
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : IOS Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 551.4/57/0113 |
| Soggetto topico: | Coast changes - Mathematical models |
| Coastal zone management | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Part 3: Evaluation of the modelDissecting the Andhra Pradesh Experience; Test case Red River Delta, Vietnam; Synthesis of the model evaluation; Conclusions and discussion; References; Appendix 1: List of participants in the Expert Panel; Appendix 2: Documentation list of the Andhra Pradesh ICZM study; Appendix 3: List of input files for the EDSS Godavari Delta Application; Acknowledgements; Curriculum Vitae | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Modeling coastal vulnerability |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modelling coastal vulnerability |
| ISBN: | 6612600977 |
| 1-282-60097-4 | |
| 9786612600975 | |
| 1-60750-521-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792351503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Deltares select series ; ; v. 5.