Inquiries into Malaysia's socio-technical disasters: Recommendations and lessons learnt

Disasters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 308-328

  Said, Aini Mat ^a   Ahmadun, Fakhru'l Razi ^a   Kadir, Razali Abdul ^a   Daud, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Emergency; Inquiry; Malaysia; Safety; Socio technical disaster; Tribunal

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DISASTER; MALAYSIA; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISASTERS; MALAYSIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 59549091064     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01076.x     Document Type: Article

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