Extreme weather events

Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 195-210

  De Freitas, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203011911     Document Type: Chapter

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