Responding to "unconventional" millennial predictions

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 273-280

  Showalter, Pamela S ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77950026633     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653569810230076     Document Type: Article

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