Damages to school infrastructure and development to disaster prevention education strategy after Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 541-555

  Chen, Chien Yuan ^a   Lee, Wen Cheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR DISASTER REDUCTION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disaster prevention education; Education; Education and school safety; Natural disasters; Risk identification and assessment; Risk management; Schools; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869024879     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211278680     Document Type: Article

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