Action-oriented resilience assessment of communities in Chennai, India

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-241

  Joerin, Jonas ^a   Shaw, Rajib ^a   Takeuchi, Yukiko ^a   Krishnamurthy, Ramasamy ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Chennai; Community resilience; Disaster risk reduction

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; URBANIZATION;

CHENNAI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

AORA;

EID: 84868643694     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2012.689248     Document Type: Article

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