Social cohesion and resilience across communities that have experienced a disaster

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 913-938

  Townshend, Ivan ^a   Awosoga, Olu ^a   Kulig, Judith ^a   Fan, HaiYan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Community; Disaster; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925493783     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1526-4     Document Type: Article

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