Sustainable neighbourhood earthquake emergency planning in megacities

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-357

  Izadkhah, Yasamin O ^a   Hosseini, Mahmood ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Disasters; Earthquakes; Emergency measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954230103     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653561011052510     Document Type: Article

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