A Comparative Study on Physical Vulnerability of Urban Area against Natural Hazards: Importance of Health Promoting Approach in Civil Engineering

• Main Authors: Mohsen Ahadnezhad Reveshty (Author), Mohammad Javad Kamelifar (Author), Behzad Ranjbarnia (Author), Alireza Pashaiifar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Estimation of urban vulnerability to earthquakes can be considered as an Ill-structured problem in urban in both unplanned and planned ar-eas. Multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) provides a way to integrate different spatial data layers in a geographic information system to create composite...