Risk transference and related trends: Driving forces towards more mega-disasters

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 69-75

  Etkin, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Natural disasters; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002710113     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/ehaz.1999.0109     Document Type: Article

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