A less disastrous disaster: Managing response to climate-driven hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 736-745

  Tompkins, Emma L ^a   Lemos, Maria Carmen ^b   Boyd, Emily ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Universiry of Michigan   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cayman Islands; Climate; Disaster risk reduction; Disasters; Drought; Governance; Hazards; Institutions; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISASTER; ECONOMIC POLICY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; ISLAND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAYMAN ISLANDS; CEARA; GREATER ANTILLES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 56649094795     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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