Creating an empirically derived community resilience index of the Gulf of Mexico region

As coastal areas increase in populations there is an increasing need to determine what community characteristics are most resilient to coastal disasters. This research proposes two methods to quantify community resilience. The factor analysis method results in a weighted additive index model of six...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Ariele Nicole
Other Authors: Nina Lam
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06072009-175525/