The Lost Creek Fire: Managing social relations under disaster conditions

Disasters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-332

  Reimer, Bill ^a   Kulig, Judith ^b   Edge, Dana ^c   Lightfoot, Nancy ^d   Townshend, Ivan ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community; Disaster; Governance; Networks; Normative systems; Resiliency; Social capital; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; FIRE MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; FIRE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIEF WORK;

ALBERTA; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FIRES; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIEF WORK;

CANADA; CROWSNEST PASS;

EID: 84874930165     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2012.01298.x     Document Type: Article

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