Organizing social resilience in the context of natural hazards: A research note

Natural Hazards

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-60

  Hutter, Gerard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Floods; Organizing; Radical change; Resilient response; Small groups; Threat rigidity thesis

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLOOD; NATURAL HAZARD; RESEARCH; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84876903606     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9705-4     Document Type: Article

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