Handling mass death by integrating the management of disasters and pandemics: Lessons from the Indian ocean tsunami, the Spanish flu and other incidents

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 80-94

  Scanlon, Joseph ^a   McMahon, Terry ^a   Van Haastert, Coen ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EPIDEMIC; EXTREME EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MASS MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI;

EID: 34248530060     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2007.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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