Bargaining with disaster: Flooding, climate change, and urban growth ambitions in quy nhon, vietnam

Pacific Affairs

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 577-597

  DiGregorio, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Political economy; Urbanization; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOODING; FUTURE PROSPECT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

QUY NHON; VIET NAM;

EID: 84940107262     PISSN: 0030851X     EISSN: 17153379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5509/2015883577     Document Type: Article

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