Critical success factors for post-disaster infrastructure recovery: Learning from the Canterbury (NZ) earthquake recovery

Disaster Prevention and Management

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 685-700

  Liu, Miao ^a   Scheepbouwer, Eric ^a   Giovinazzi, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Canterbury earthquake; Critical success factor; Decision making; Disaster management; Infrastructure; Post disaster recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991706327     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-01-2016-0006     Document Type: Article

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