Luxury tourism investment and flood risk: Case study on unsustainable development in Denarau island resort in Fiji

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 302-311

  Bernard, Karen ^a   Cook, Samantha ^b,c  

^a UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^b Secretariat of the Pacific Community   (Fiji)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaster; Floods; Investment; Risk; Tourism; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949451528     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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