‘After the disaster comes destination thoughts’: A review and conceptualization of consolidative disaster adaptive capacity model

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 35, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Erdiaw Kwasie, Michael Odei ^a   Abunyewah, Matthew ^b   Yamoah, Owusua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Destination; Migration; Model development; Natural disaster

Indexed keywords

EID: 85062351562     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101098     Document Type: Review

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