Earthquakes and Risk Management in China

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 478-493

  Olson, David L ^a   Wu, Desheng Dash ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Risk management; Sichuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953490067     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807031003779898     Document Type: Article

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