The macro-economic impact of disasters

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 283-305

  Pelling, Mark ^a   Özerdem, Alpaslan ^b   Barakat, Sultan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disaster; disaster losses; economic loss; economic shock; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996163475     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993402ps042ra     Document Type: Article

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