Communication, Coherence, and Collective Action: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Infrastructure

Public Works Management & Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 328-343

  Comfort, Louise K ^a   Haase, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

communications processes; disaster response system; information asymmetry; interoperability; network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848829275     PISSN: 1087724X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087724X06289052     Document Type: Article

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