Organising response to extreme emergencies: The victorian bushfires of 2009

Australian Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 372-386

  Leonard, Herman B ^a   Howitt, Arnold M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; crisis management; decentralisation; emergence; emergency; management; organising; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650661882     PISSN: 03136647     EISSN: 14678500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2010.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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