Katrina’s Contamination: Regulatory knowledge gaps in the making and unmaking of environmental contention

Dynamics of Disaster: Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 9-28

  Bess Vincent, M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84925776388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315067193     Document Type: Chapter

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