Urban disasters as indicators of global environmental change: Assessing functional varieties of vulnerability

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 135-152

  Mitchell, James K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 44949106330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26590-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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