Crowd facilities, management and communications in disasters

Facilities

Volumn 17, Issue , 1999, Pages 313-324

  Sime, Jonathan D ^a  

^a Jonathan Sime Associates (JSA)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communications; Disaster management; Fire; Occupancy; Response; Risk communication timeline; Warning systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986173607     PISSN: 02632772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02632779910278728     Document Type: Article

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