Research opportunities in search of federal flood policy

Policy Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 321-344

  Wiener, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; HAZARD MITIGATION; NATURAL HAZARD;

EID: 0030319113     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00138407     Document Type: Article

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