Disaster vulnerability and evacuation readiness: Coastal mobile home residents in Florida

Natural Hazards

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-95

  Kusenbach, Margarethe ^a   Simms, Jason L ^a   Tobin, Graham A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster vulnerability; Evacuation; Florida; Mobile homes; Perception

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; NATURAL HAZARD; PERCEPTION; VULNERABILITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72549095118     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9358-3     Document Type: Article

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