Disaster risk reduction capacity assessment for precarious settlements in Guatemala City

Disasters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-381

  Miles, Scott B ^a   Green, Rebekah A ^a   Svekla, Walter ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Capacity building; Disaster risk reduction; Guatemala; Informal settlements

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; METROPOLITAN AREA; RESOURCE USE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CITY PLANNING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CITY PLANNING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84862492165     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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