The price of safety: costs for mitigating and coping with Alpine hazards

Due to limited public budgets and the need to economize, the analysis of costs of hazard mitigation and emergency management of natural hazards becomes increasingly important for public natural hazard and risk management. In recent years there has been a growing body of literature on the estimation...

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Main Authors: C. Pfurtscheller, A. H. Thieken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-10-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/13/2619/2013/nhess-13-2619-2013.pdf