Building up resilienc e of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains to extreme weather events

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 362-375

  Wedawatta, Gayan ^a   Ingirige, Bingunath ^a   Amaratunga, Dilanthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction SMEs; Extreme weather events; Resilience; Supply chains; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952167537     PISSN: 1648715X     EISSN: 16489179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/ijspm.2010.27     Document Type: Review

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