Disaster Evacuation Behavior: Tourists and Other Transients
- ISBN-10
- 1877943134
- ISBN-13
- 9781877943133
- Category
- Disaster victims
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Natural Hazards Research & Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science
- Author
- Thomas E. Drabek
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