Linking social capacities and risk communication in Europe: A gap between theory and practice?

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1753-1778

  Höppner, Corina ^a,b   Whittle, Rebecca ^c   Bründl, Michael ^a   Buchecker, Matthias ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Ernst Basler Partner   (Switzerland)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Participation; Prevention; Risk communication; Warning

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; NATURAL HAZARD; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867234357     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0356-5     Document Type: Article

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