Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 249-267

  Weichselgartner, Juergen ^a,b   Kelman, Ilan ^c,d  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NUPI   (Norway)

Author keywords

co designing knowledge; development geography; disaster risk reduction; resilience; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84930412839     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: 14770288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132513518834     Document Type: Article

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