Space and time: Coupling dimensions in natural hazard risk management?

The Spatial Dimension of Risk: How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 189-201

  Fuchs, Sven ^a   Keiler, Margreth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84872108825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203109595     Document Type: Chapter

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