Earthquake disaster risk management planning in schools

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 649-661

  Hosseini, Mahmood ^a   Izadkhah, Yasamin O ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children (age groups); Developing countries; Disasters; Earthquakes; Schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747468643     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653560610686595     Document Type: Article

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