Wildfire preparedness, community cohesion and social-ecological systems

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1575-1586

  Prior, Tim ^a   Eriksen, Christine ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community cohesion; Preparedness; Resilience; Social ecological system; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; NATURAL HAZARD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84889096917     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.016     Document Type: Article

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