Capacity development for participatory disaster risk assessment

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-225

  Van Riet, Gideon ^a   Van Niekerk, Dewald ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community based disaster risk assessment; Disaster risk management; Disaster risk reduction; Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMPLIANCE; DATA QUALITY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH WEST PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84868659246     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2012.688793     Document Type: Article

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