Explaining success and failure in crisis coordination

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 123-135

  Boin, Arjen ^a   Bynander, Fredrik ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination; Crisis; Disaster

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84923763302     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geoa.12072     Document Type: Article

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