Coping strategies with floods in Bangladesh: An empirical study

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1209-1218

  Sultana, Nayeem ^a   Rayhan, Md Israt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Borrow; Coping; Divestment; Flood; Tobit

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FLOODING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MODELING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84867229662     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0291-5     Document Type: Article

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