A systems approach to resilience in the built environment: The case of Cuba

Disasters

Volumn 39, Issue s1, 2015, Pages s76-s95

  Lizarralde, Gonzalo ^a   Valladares, Arturo ^b   Olivera, Andres ^c   Bornstein, Lisa ^b   Gould, Kevin ^d   Barenstein, Jennifer Duyne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^d Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Built environment; Disasters; Systemic adaptation; Systemic resilience; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

CUBA; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CUBA; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84914820550     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12109     Document Type: Article

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