Resilience in the social and physical realms: lessons from the Gulf Coast

Community resilience to disasters is an affected area’s ability to rebound after a catastrophic event. The mounting frequency and scale of natural disasters, increasing urbanization, a growing reliance on interdependent technologies and infrastructure systems, and inflated expectations of intervent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carpenter, Ann Marie
Other Authors: Elliott, Michael
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49034