Tools to Improve the Production of Emergency Plans for Floods: Are They Being Used by the People that Need Them?

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 149-165

  Lumbroso, Darren ^a,b   Vinet, Freddy ^c  

^a HR WALLINGFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; PLANNING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE;

ENGLAND; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84861549163     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2012.00665.x     Document Type: Article

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