Coping with crisis and disaster: Hong Kong disaster plan and contingency plan for natural disasters

Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 527-541

  Huque, Ahmed Shafiqul ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85061856766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315095264     Document Type: Chapter

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