Community resilience in response to the 2010 tsunami in Chile: The survival of a small-scale fishing community

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 33, Issue , 2019, Pages 376-384

  Moreno, Jenny ^a   Lara, Alejandro ^b   Torres, Mauricio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c Independent Consultant on Disaster Risk Reduction   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chile; Community resilience; Disaster; Fishing community; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056633835     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.10.024     Document Type: Article

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