Disaster risk profiling in southern Africa: inventories, impacts and implications

Natural Hazards

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1921-1942

  de Waal, Jan ^a   Vogel, Coleen ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Development; Disaster response; Disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions; Humanitarian incidents and inventories; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; VULNERABILITY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84981164680     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2527-2     Document Type: Article

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