Disaster coordination preparedness of soft-target organisations

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 623-638

  Uddin, Shahadat ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coordination; Disaster; Preparedness; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; TERRORISM;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958772325     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2011.01229.x     Document Type: Article

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