A century of natural disasters in a state of changing vulnerability: New Jersey, 1900-1999

New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future

Volumn 9780813539225, Issue , 2006, Pages 164-198

  Mitchell, James K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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