Creating disaster-resilient communities: Evaluating the promise and performance of new urbanism

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-115

  Stevens, Mark R ^a   Berke, Philip R ^a   Song, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster resilience; Land use planning; Natural hazard mitigation; New Urbanism; Planning staff technical assistance

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; LAND USE; REGIONAL PLANNING;

DISASTER RESILIENCES; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURAL HAZARD; NEW URBANISMS; TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE;

HAZARDS;

COMMUNITY CARE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; DISASTER; FLOODPLAIN; LAND USE PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; STATE ROLE; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73549101529     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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