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A case study of co-ordinative decision-making in disaster management

Wally Smith School of Management Information Systems, Edith Cowan University, Churchlands WA 6018, Australia
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John Dowell Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Pages 1153-1166 | Published online: 10 Nov 2010

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