Community resilience to flood hazards in Khyber Pukhthunkhwa province of Pakistan

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 100-106

  Qasim, Said ^a   Qasim, Mohammad ^b,c   Shrestha, Rajendra Prasad ^d   Khan, Amir Nawaz ^b   Tun, Kyawt ^d   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^c Department of Botany   (Pakistan)

^d ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Disasters; Floods; Khyber Pukhthunkhwa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976487161     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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