Disaster resilience in a flood-impacted rural Australian town

Natural Hazards

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 683-701

  Boon, Helen J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community; Disaster; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893917506     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0935-0     Document Type: Article

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