Susceptibility versus resilience to mountain hazards in Austria - paradigms of vulnerability revisited

The concept of vulnerability is pillared by multiple disciplinary theories underpinning either a technical or a social origin of the concept and resulting in a range of paradigms for either a qualitative or quantitative assessment of vulnerability. However, efforts to reduce susceptibility to hazard...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: S. Fuchs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-03-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/337/2009/nhess-9-337-2009.pdf