How Does Disaster Relief Works Affect the Trust in Local Government? A Study of the Wenchuan Earthquake

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-20

  Han, Ziqiang ^a   Hu, Xiaojiang ^b   Nigg, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; disaster; earthquake; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888059276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1092     Document Type: Article

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