Resilience in practice: Five principles to enable societies to cope with extreme weather events

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 70, Issue , 2017, Pages 21-30

  de Bruijn, Karin ^a   Buurman, Joost ^b   Mens, Marjolein ^a   Dahm, Ruben ^a   Klijn, Frans ^a,c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster risk management; Extreme weather events; Resilience; Resilience principles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLOODING; HAZARD; HUMAN; HURRICANE; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RIVER BASIN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VIET NAM; WEATHER;

EID: 85012181010     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.02.001     Document Type: Article

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