Resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of an inland rural town prone to flooding: A climate change adaptation case study of Charleville, Queensland, Australia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 699-723

  Keogh, Diane U ^a   Apan, Armando ^a   Mushtaq, Shahbaz ^a   King, David ^b   Thomas, Melanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Charleville; Climate change adaptation; Flood; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; FLOODING; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESILIENCE; RURAL AREA; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; CHARLEVILLE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 80053573339     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9791-y     Document Type: Article

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