Vulnerability, resilience and development discourses in context of climate change

Natural Hazards

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 621-635

  Cannon, Terry ^a   Müller Mahn, Detlef ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Development; Discourse analysis; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURAL HAZARD; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 78349280485     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9499-4     Document Type: Article

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