A new framework for understanding urban social vulnerability from a network perspective

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Ge, Yi ^a   Dou, Wen ^b   Zhang, Haibo ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

City; Connectivity; Network; Social vulnerability; The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONNECTIVITY; INDEX METHOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; HUZHOU; JIANGSU; JIAXING; NANJING [JIANGSU]; SHANGHAI; TAIZHOU; YANGTZE BASIN; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85030127529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9101723     Document Type: Article

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