Climate Disaster Resilience of Dhaka City Corporation: An Empirical Assessment at Zone Level

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Parvin, Gulsan Ara ^a   Shaw, Rajib ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

climate disaster resilience; Dhaka City Corporation; zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893677516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1069     Document Type: Article

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