Assessing community resilience to climate-related disasters in Chennai, India

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-54

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Chennai; Climate related disasters; Community resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872861410     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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