Social vulnerability to environmental hazards

Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-131

  Cutter, Susan L ^a   Boruff, Bryan J ^a   Lynn Shirley, W ^a  

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EID: 78649612786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849771542     Document Type: Chapter

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