Institutional bricolage and the production of vulnerability to floods in an urbanising delta in Accra

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 26, Issue , 2017, Pages 57-68

  Frick Trzebitzky, Fanny ^a   Baghel, Ravi ^a   Bruns, Antje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Informal institutions; Riskscape; Sub Saharan Africa; Urban floods; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029773834     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.030     Document Type: Article

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