Natural disaster reduction in Europe: A Don Quixotic project in the face of a changing world?

Management Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 233-242

  Weichselgartner, J ^a   Bertens, J ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; LANDSLIDES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WIND;

NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION; NATURAL HAZARDS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 2942606161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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