Households’ experience of local government during recovery from cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: resilience, equity, and corruption

Natural Hazards

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 361-378

  Islam, Rabiul ^a,b   Walkerden, Greg ^b   Amati, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladeshi coast; Corruption; Cyclone Sidr; Disaster resilience and recovery; Local government; Social capital; Union Parishad

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CORRUPTION; CYCLONE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BANGLADESH;

ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI;

EID: 84984923177     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2568-6     Document Type: Article

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