Organising for effective emergency management: Lessons from Research

Australian Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 357-371

  Boin, Arjen ^a,b   'T Hart, Paul ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bushfires; crisis management; emergency; response performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650666686     PISSN: 03136647     EISSN: 14678500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2010.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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