Vulnerability conditions and risk representations in Latin-America: Framing the territorializing urban risk

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 391-398

  Rebotier, Julien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Discourses; Performativity; Politics of risks; Production; Territorialization

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84860248659     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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