Assessing community resilience on the US coast using school principals as key informants

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-15

  Sherrieb, Kathleen ^a,b   Louis, Claudine A ^a,b   Pfefferbaum, Rose L ^c,d   Pfefferbaum, Betty J D ^c,e   Diab, Eamon ^f   Norris, Fran H ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR PTSD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d Phoenix College   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Disasters; Key informants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878410778     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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