'We all knew that a cyclone was coming': Disaster preparedness and the cyclone of 1999 in Orissa, India

Disasters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-387

  Thomalla, Frank ^a   Schmuck, Hanna ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Disaster preparedness; Tropical cyclones; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; ORISSA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 10944254753     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2004.00264.x     Document Type: Article

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