Responding to Crises in the Modern Infrastructure: Policy Lessons from Y2K

Responding to Crises in the Modern Infrastructure: Policy Lessons from Y2K

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-211

  Quigley, Kevin F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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