Developing a relative ranking of social vulnerability of governorates of Yemen to humanitarian crisis

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1913-1935

  Kandeh, Joseph ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^b  

^a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)   (Yemen)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Humanitarian crisis; Humanitarian emergencies; Natural disasters; Risk; Social vulnerability; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952771541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4041913     Document Type: Article

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