Assessing the disaster resilience of megacities: The case of Hong Kong

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Sim, Timothy ^a   Wang, Dongming ^b   Han, Ziqiang ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Ministry of Civil Affairs   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disaster risk reduction; Hong Kong; Resilience; UNISDR Sendai Framework

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MEGACITY; NATURAL DISASTER; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 85045246105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10041137     Document Type: Article

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