Wide-area collaboration in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters in Japan: Implications for responsible disaster management

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 196-213

  Aoki, Naomi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

collaborative governance; decentralization; disaster management; Fukushima; horizontal collaboration; nuclear disaster; Tohoku; vertical collaboration

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; RECONSTRUCTION; RECOVERY PLAN; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI EVENT;

FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84924914551     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: 14617226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852314541563     Document Type: Article

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