Community resilience to cyclone disasters in coastal bangladesh

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Ahmed, Bayes ^a,b   Kelman, Ilan ^a,c   Fehr, Heather K ^d   Saha, Manik ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^d BRITISH RED CROSS   (United Kingdom)

^e Bangladesh Delegation   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Coastal community; Cyclone; Disaster risk reduction; Resilience; Sustainable livelihoods; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYCLONE; DEVELOPMENT THEORY; DISASTER; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY;

BANGLADESH; GERMANY; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84983802157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8080805     Document Type: Article

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