Pinning down vulnerability: From narratives to numbers

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-86

  Mustafa, Daanish ^a   Ahmed, Sara ^b   Saroch, Eva ^c   Bell, Heather ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c Institute for Social and Environmental Transition   (India)

^d Pacific Disaster Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Coastal Gujarat; Disaster risk reduction; Local scale; Quantitative vulnerability and capacities index

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COASTAL ZONE; COMPLEXITY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISASTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; RISK MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CLIMATE; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DISASTERS; HUMANS; INDIA; NARRATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 78650156413     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01193.x     Document Type: Article

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