Adaptive Capacity: What does it mean in the context of natural hazards?

Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 51-70

  Handmer, John ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84967409137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9781860945816_0004     Document Type: Chapter

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