Risk factors in relation to human deaths and other tsunami (2004) impacts in Sri Lanka: The fishers'-eye view

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-66

  Venkatachalam, A J ^a   Price, A R G ^a   Chandrasekara, S ^b   Sellamuttu, S Senaratna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COASTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; PERCEPTION; RISK FACTOR; STORM DAMAGE; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

ANTHOZOA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 64349083616     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.996     Document Type: Article

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