Development, risk momentum and the ecology of vulnerability: A historical- relational analysis of the 1991 Oakland hills firestorm

Cities, Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-47

  Simon, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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