The politics of emergency response and recovery: Preliminary observations on Taiwan's 921 earthquake

Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 48-63

  Prater, Carla ^a   Wu, Jie Ying ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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