'The day after the hurricane': Infrastructure, order, and the New Orleans Police Department's response to Hurricane Katrina

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-118

  Sims, Benjamin ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disasters; Emergency response; Organizations; Risk; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847264103     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706069432     Document Type: Review

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