Communication management and trust: Their role in building resilience to "surprises" such as natural disasters, pandemic flu, and terrorism

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Longstaff, P H ^a   Yang, Sung Un ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Disasters; Resilience; Trust

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EID: 50149102416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02232-130103     Document Type: Article

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