Developing a tool to measure and compare organizations' resilience

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-41

  Lee, Amy V ^a   Vargo, John ^b   Seville, Erica ^b  

^a Stephenson Resilience   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Measuring resilience; New Zealand; Organizational resilience; Planning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; CRITICAL COMPONENT; MEASURING RESILIENCE; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE; RESILIENCE STRATEGY;

COMPETITION; PLANNING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; COMPETITIVENESS; COPING STRATEGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENT; PLANNING METHOD;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84873348502     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000075     Document Type: Article

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