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Building community resilience to climate change: the role of a Population-Health-Environment programme in supporting the community response to cyclone Haruna in Madagascar

dc.contributor.authorMohan, Vikas
dc.contributor.authorHardee, Karen
dc.contributor.authorSavitzky, Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-28T03:19:33Z
dc.date.available2020-07-28T03:19:33Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractTropical cyclone Haruna made landfall in southwest Madagascar in February 2013; it was a powerful Category 2 storm with heavy rain and wind speeds of 150 km/h, making it the largest cyclone that this region had experienced in more than 35 years. Houses, schools, government buildings and health clinics throughout the communes of Befandefa and Morombe (home to approximately 15 000 people) were damaged, with many completely destroyed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMohan, V., et al. 2020. Building community resilience to climate change: the role of a Population-Health-Environment programme in supporting the community response to cyclone Haruna in Madagascar. Jamba: Journal of disaster risk studies. 12(1):207-210. [http://www.jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-1421
dc.identifier.issn2072-845X (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/35393
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v12i1.730
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOASISen_US
dc.titleBuilding community resilience to climate change: the role of a Population-Health-Environment programme in supporting the community response to cyclone Haruna in Madagascaren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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