Tackling landslide risk: Helping land use policy to reflect unplanned housing realities in the Eastern Caribbean

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 798-800

  Holcombe, Elizabeth ^a   Anderson, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Land use management; Landslide; Risk reduction

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBANIZATION;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 77649341850     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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