Creating social–physical resilience to natural disasters: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake

Natural Hazards

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1111-1132

  Tang, Wenzhe ^a   Li, Jing ^b,c   Lei, Zhen ^a   Wang, Enzhi ^a   Shen, Wenxin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Disaster Reduction Center of China   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Natural disaster mitigation; Physical vulnerability; Socially disadvantaged community; Social physical resilience; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; RURAL AREA; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84943811338     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1895-3     Document Type: Article

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