Place- and Age-Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction for Hong Kong: Collaborative Place Audit and Social Vulnerability Index for Elders

Place- and Age-Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction for Hong Kong: Collaborative Place Audit and Social Vulnerability Index for Elders

Abstract This study reformulates the concept and contents of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Hong Kong through an explorative study on collaborative place audit (CPA) and social vulnerability index (SVI) for elders. We believe that DRR should be place- and age-responsive. Accordingly, DRR needs to...

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Main Authors: Yi Sun, Pui Hing Chau, Moses Wong, Jean Woo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-06-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Subjects:
Disaster risk reduction
Hong Kong
Place audit
Social capital
Social vulnerability
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-017-0128-7

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