Disaster resilience: A bounce back or bounce forward ability?

Local Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 417-424

  Siambabala, Bernard Manyena ^a   O'Brien, Geoff ^a   O'Keefe, Phil ^a   Rose, Joanne ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79960534239     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2011.583049     Document Type: Editorial

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