Building Community Capacity for Disaster Resilience in Taiwan

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-146

  Chen, Liang Chun ^a   Wang, Yi Wen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR DISASTER REDUCTION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

community; disaster adaptation; disaster resilience; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISASTER PREVENTION;

BUILDING COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY RESILIENCES; DISASTER ADAPTATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RESILIENCES; HIGH INTENSITY; LARGE-SCALES; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; VULNERABILITY;

DISASTERS;

EID: 80051956213     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0138     Document Type: Article

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