Resilience to natural hazards: A geographic perspective

Natural Hazards

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-41

  Zhou, Hongjian ^a   Wang, Jing'ai ^a   Wan, Jinhong ^a   Jia, Huicong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecology; Geographic perspective; Resilience; Social ecological system; Society

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURAL HAZARD; RESILIENCE;

EID: 77649235663     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9407-y     Document Type: Article

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