Developing resilience to naturally triggered disasters

Environment Systems and Decisions

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 237-251

  Davies, Timothy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community disaster resilience; Community engagement; Complex systems; Disaster scenarios; Disasters; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISASTER; LOCAL PLANNING; NATURAL HAZARD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84930871454     PISSN: 21945403     EISSN: 21945411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-015-9545-6     Document Type: Article

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