Screening of social vulnerability to natural hazards in China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Yang, Saini ^a   He, Shuai ^a   Du, Juan ^a   Sun, Xiaohua ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Natural hazards; Risk; Social vulnerability; Temporal spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937230588     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1225-1     Document Type: Article

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