Preparedness functions in disaster: lesson learned from Tehran dust storm 2014

Natural Hazards

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 177-179

  Fatemi, Farin ^a   Moslehi, Shandiz ^a   Ardalan, Ali ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust storm; Lesson learn; Preparedness; Tehran

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939968956     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1601-5     Document Type: Article

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