Community Resilience to Drought Hazard in the South-Central United States

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 739-755

  Mihunov, Volodymyr V ^a   Lam, Nina S N ^a   Zou, Lei ^a   Rohli, Robert V ^a   Bushra, Nazla ^a   Reams, Margaret A ^a   Argote, Jennifer E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climatological hazard; community resilience; drought hazard; resilience inference measurement (RIM) model; south central United States

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DROUGHT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; MODELING;

ARKANSAS; LOUISIANA; NEW MEXICO; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85032011453     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1372177     Document Type: Article

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