Building resilience to natural hazards. Practices and policies on governance and mitigation in the central region of Portugal

Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications - Proceedings of the Joint ESREL and SRA-Europe Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1577-1584

  Mendcs, J M ^a   Tavares, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL PROTECTION; EMERGENCY PLANS; LEGAL FRAMEWORKS; LOCAL POPULATIONS; NATIONAL LAWS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL HAZARD; NEW DIMENSIONS; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC AWARENESS;

DISASTERS; HAZARDS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHERES;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 79952354974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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