Towards New Disaster Governance: Subsidiarity as a Critical Tool

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 386-398

  Melo Zurita, Maria de Lourdes ^a   Cook, Brian ^b   Harms, Louise ^b   March, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bushfires; Disaster governance; Floods; Natural disasters; Subsidiarity principle

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATURAL DISASTER; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84955183740     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1681     Document Type: Article

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