Resilience practice: Building capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function

Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-227

  Walker, Brian ^a   Salt, David ^b  

^a Australian National University in Canberra ^*

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-231-0     Document Type: Book

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