Improving decision making about natural disaster mitigation funding in Australia-A framework

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Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  van den Honert, Robin C ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Multicriteria decision making; Natural disaster mitigation; Risk reduction; Value function

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018237890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources5030028     Document Type: Article

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