Differential Vulnerability to Hurricanes in Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: The Contribution of Education
The possible impacts of the level of formal education on different aspects of disaster management, prevention, alarm, emergency, or postdisaster activities, were studied in a comparative perspective for three countries with a comparable exposure to hurricane hazards but different capacities for prev...
Main Authors: | Adelheid Pichler, Erich Striessnig |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2013-09-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss3/art31/ |
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