Decision-making errors and socio-political disputes over the Vajont dam disaster

Disaster Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 144-152

  Marco, Delle Rose ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Environmental policy and social justice; Epistemology; Hydrogeological catastrophe; Paradigm; Post disaster policy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DAM; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; OVERTOPPING; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; PORDENONE; VAJONT DAM; VAJONT VALLEY;

EID: 84864233878     PISSN: 0974262X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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