Community vulnerability to floods and landslides in Nepal

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Samir, K C ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA VID/OEAW WU)/VID/OEAW   (Austria)

Author keywords

Education; Floods and landslides; Natural disaster; Nepal; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EDUCATION; FLOOD; LANDSLIDE; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VILLAGE; VULNERABILITY;

NEPAL; TARAI;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876758896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05095-180108     Document Type: Article

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