Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters


	Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

kmcolo

7-5-2009 6:03 PM

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disasters, resilience

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W. Neil Adger,1* Terry P. Hughes,2 Carl Folke,3 Stephen R. Carpenter,4 Johan Rockström5

Science 12 August 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5737, pp. 1036 - 1039
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112122

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