Vulnerability to Weather Disasters: the Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda

When a natural disaster hits, the affected households try to cope with its impacts. A variety of coping strategies, from reducing current consumption to disposing of productive assets, may be employed. The latter strategies are especially worrisome because they may reduce the capacity of the househo...

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Main Authors: Jennifer F. Helgeson, Simon Dietz, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2013-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss2/art2/