City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing, population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly press
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City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach
John Preston Jane M Binner Layla Branicki Tobias Galla Nick Jones James King Magdalini Kolokitha Michalis Smyrnakis •
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Editors John Preston Cass School of Education University of East London London UK Jane M Binner Sheffield Management School University of Sheffield Sheffield UK Layla Branicki Marketing and Strategic Management Group, Warwick Business School University of Warwick Coventry UK
Tobias Galla Michalis Smyrnakis School of Physics and Astronomy The University of Manchester Manchester UK Nick Jones James King Department of Mathematics Imperial College London London UK Magdalini Kolokitha Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies University of London London UK
ISBN 978-3-662-43876-3 ISBN 978-3-662-43877-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
City evacuations and emergency management, are complex problems which require inter-disciplinary methods of working. This book is the result
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