Public perception of the risk of disasters in a developing economy: The case of Saudi Arabia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1813-1830

  Alshehri, Saud Ali ^a,b   Rezgui, Yacine ^a   Li, Haijiang ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Disasters; Hazards; Public perception; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84871937991     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0445-5     Document Type: Article

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