Coastal resilience: Can we get beyond planning the last disaster?

Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 936-947

  Ewing, Lesley ^a,b   Synolakis, Costas ^b,c  

^a California Coastal Commission   (United States)

^b Biegler Hall B212 ^*  (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal environment; Disaster recovery; Planning; Social factors

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RECOVERY; EMERGENCY SERVICE; INFORMED DECISION; RESILIENCE INDEX; SOCIAL FACTOR;

DISASTER PREVENTION; PLANNING;

DISASTERS;

EID: 80053147369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41185(417)79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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