Businesses and disasters: Empirical patterns and unanswered questions

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 83-90

  Webb, Gary R ^a   Tierney, Kathleen J ^a   Dahlhamer, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DISRUPTION; CONTINGENCY PLANNING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; HAZARD AWARENESS; LONG-TERM RECOVERY; MAJOR DISASTERS; RESEARCH CENTER;

DISASTER PREVENTION; LOSSES;

DISASTERS;

EID: 0038146282     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2000)1:2(83)     Document Type: Article

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