Flooding, vulnerability and coping strategies: Local responses to a global threat

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-58

  Few, Roger ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; disaster; flooding; hazards; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242436600     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993403ps049ra     Document Type: Article

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