Bushfires: Preparation, resilience and recovery

The Phoenix of Natural Disasters: Community Resilience

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 209-234

  Pritchard, Francine ^a   Gow, Kathryn ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bushfire preparedness; Disaster management; Resilience; Vulnerability; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049160795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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