Assessing the vulnerability of coastal communities to extreme storms : the case of Revere, Ma., USA / George E. Clark ... [et al.].

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Clark, George E

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TextPublication details: Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998Description: [23] leaves : illSubject(s):

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551.55 21

Subject: The ability to mitigate potential impacts from coastal flooding may be fostered by better understanding the interplay of social and physical factors that produce human vulnerability. This study does so by integrating the classic causal model of hazards with social, environmental, and spatial dynamics that lead to the differential ability of people to cope with hazards

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From: Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, vol. 3, 1988, pp. 59-82

Includes bibliographical references

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The ability to mitigate potential impacts from coastal flooding may be fostered by better understanding the interplay of social and physical factors that produce human vulnerability. This study does so by integrating the classic causal model of hazards with social, environmental, and spatial dynamics that lead to the differential ability of people to cope with hazards

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