Rethinking risk and disasters in mountain areas;Repenser le risque et les catastrophes dans les régions de montagne

Revue de Geographie Alpine

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a   Mehta, Manjari ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Social Anthropologist and independent researcher   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBANIZATION;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84862572359     PISSN: 00351121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/rga.1653     Document Type: Article

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