Modeling evacuate versus shelter-in-place decisions in wildfires

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1662-1687

  Cova, Thomas J ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^a   Drews, Frank A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Disaster planning; Evacuation; Resiliency; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867347818     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101662     Document Type: Article

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