The power of people: Social capital's role in recovery from the 1995 Kobe earthquake

Natural Hazards

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 595-611

  Aldrich, Daniel P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Kobe earthquake; Population recovery; Resilience; Social capital

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; KOBE EARTHQUAKE 1995; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 79951723515     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9577-7     Document Type: Article

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