The mitigation, management, and survivability of asteroid/comet impact with earth

Space Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 213-222

  Garshnek, Victoria ^a   Morrison, David ^b   Burkle, Frederick M ^c  

^a Global Hum Fut Res Associates   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Global catastrophe; Impact; Near earth object

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034674793     PISSN: 02659646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-9646(00)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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