The changing meaning of disaster

Area

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 482-489

  Furedi, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adversity; Blame; Community; Disaster; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; DISASTER; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 36349035543     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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