Organisational issues in implementing an information sharing framework: Lessons from the Matata flooding events in New Zealand

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-52

  Dantas, André ^a   Seville, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Disasters; Emergency management; Information sharing; Response

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; NATURAL DISASTER;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 33645733269     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2006.00479.x     Document Type: Review

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