Environmental disasters in social context: Toward a preventive and precautionary approach

Natural Hazards

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-14

  Hewitt, Kenneth ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disasters; Environmental risk; Social context; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84873447562     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0205-6     Document Type: Article

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