Risk complexity and governance in mountain environments

Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 349-371

  Gardner, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5_19     Document Type: Chapter

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