Preparedness: The state of the art and future prospects

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 404-417

  Hémond, Yannick ^a   Robert, Benoît ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business continuity; Disasters; Emergency measures; Emergency planning; Resilience; Resilience engineering; State of preparedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865373668     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211256125     Document Type: Review

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