Quantifying household social resilience: a place-based approach in a rapidly transforming community

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 343-363

  Henly Shepard, Sarah ^a   Anderson, Cheryl ^b   Burnett, Kimberly ^b   Cox, Linda J ^b   Kittinger, John N ^c   Ka‘aumoana, Maka‘ala ^d  

^a Disaster Resilience LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans Conservation International   (United States)

^d Hanalei Watershed Hui   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Community; Coping; Resilience; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914811678     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1328-8     Document Type: Article

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