Assessing social capacity and vulnerability of private households to natural hazards - Integrating psychological and governance factors

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1613-1628

  Werg, J ^a   Grothmann, T ^b   Schmidt, P ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; EXTREME EVENT; FINANCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL HAZARD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IMPACT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84880226123     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-1613-2013     Document Type: Article

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