Planning for disasters and responding to catastrophes: Error of the third type in disaster policy and planning

International Journal of Public Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 313-327

  Naim, Kapucu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic disasters; Community capacity building; Crisis leadership; Disasters; Error of the third type; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749083736     PISSN: 17400600     EISSN: 17400619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPP.2008.020985     Document Type: Article

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