How prepared is prepared enough?

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 130-142

  Jongejan, Ruben B ^a   Helsloot, Ira ^b   Beerens, Ralf J J ^c   Vrijling, Jan K ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Institute for Safety   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Disaster preparedness; Risk management; Safety chain

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

ARTICLE; CIVIL DEFENSE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; HUMAN; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CIVIL DEFENSE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78650087386     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01196.x     Document Type: Article

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