Post-disaster recovery dilemmas: challenges in balancing short-term and long-term needs for vulnerability reduction

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 607-613

  Ingram, Jane C ^a   Franco, Guillermo ^a   Rio, Cristina Rumbaitis del ^a   Khazai, Bjian ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster recovery; Sri Lanka; Tsunami; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI;

EID: 33750688577     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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