Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nguyen, Kien V ^a,b   James, Helen ^b  

^a An Giang University   (Venezuela)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Floods; Impacts; Mekong River Delta; Resilience; Vulnerability; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COPING STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FLOOD; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VULNERABILITY;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84884959451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05427-180313     Document Type: Article

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