Time and population vulnerability to natural hazards: The pre-katrina primacy of experience

Environmental Anthropology Today

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 140-160

  De Vries, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84917208928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203806906-15     Document Type: Chapter

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