Aspects of risk assessment in power-law distributed natural hazards
Risk assessment is mainly based on certain scenarios involving an event of a certain size which is thought to be characteristic for the considered type of hazard. However, many natural hazards extend over a wide range of event sizes, and some of them are even free of characteristic scales. An expres...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/4/309/2004/nhess-4-309-2004.pdf |