Sustainable suffering? Reflections on development and disaster vulnerability in the Post-Johannesburg World

Regional Development Dialogue

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-148

  Wisner, Ben ^a  

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY;

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