Operationalizing "resilience" for disaster risk reduction in mountainous Nepal

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 366-377

  Sudmeier, Karen I ^a   Jaboyedoff, Michel ^a   Jaquet, Stephanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disasters; Landslides; Nepal; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885046973     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-02-2013-0028     Document Type: Article

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