Emergence of new volunteerism: Increasing community resilience to natural disasters in Japan

The Phoenix of Natural Disasters: Community Resilience

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 168-180

  Childs, Iraphne ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Earthquakes; Kobe; Resilience; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956175716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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