'Natural' disaster? A retrospect into the causes of the late-2004 typhoon disaster in Eastern Luzon, Philippines

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 257-270

  Gaillard, Jean Christophe ^a   Liamzon, Catherine C ^b,c   Villanueva, Jessica D ^c  

^a Laboratoire PACTE   (France)

^b NIPA (NGOs for Integrated Protected Areas Inc)   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Access to land and resources; Corruption; Disaster; Philippines; Unmanaged population growth; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FLASH FLOOD; LANDSLIDE; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURAL HAZARD; STORM DAMAGE; TYPHOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; GENERAL NAKAR; INFANTA; PHILIPPINES; QUEZON; REAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN TAGALOG;

EID: 36549075746     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envhaz.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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