Disasters: Lessons from the past 105 years

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-82

  Eshghi, Kourosh ^a   Larson, Richard C ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Disasters; Emergency services; Natural disasters; Response time

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449119233     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653560810855883     Document Type: Article

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