Assessing the resilience of Delhi to climate-related disasters: A comprehensive approach

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1609-1624

  Prashar, Sunil ^a   Shaw, Rajib ^a   Takeuchi, Yukiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate related hazards; Disaster risk; Resilience; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURAL HAZARD; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 84867230639     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0320-4     Document Type: Article

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