Disasters, lessons learned, and fantasy documents

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 146-156

  Birkland, Thomas A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EXTREME EVENT; LEARNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 69149107751     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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