Australian wildfire litigation

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 488-497

  Eburn, Michael ^a,b   Dovers, Stephen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

duty of care; law; legislation.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864960166     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF11094     Document Type: Article

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