Resilience and disaster risk reduction: An etymological journey

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2707-2716

  Alexander, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGY; NATURAL DISASTER; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84887895531     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013     Document Type: Article

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