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Help from the deep: the potential of ocean‐based response to disaster

Joseph Scanlon (Director, Emergency Communications Research Unit, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

Disaster Prevention and Management

ISSN: 0965-3562

Article publication date: 1 August 1996

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Abstract

Examines, through examples of disasters cited in the text, how response and assistance is given and at what speed, with particular reference to oceans, when applicable. Looks particularly at the part played by the Canadian Navy in many of these events.

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Scanlon, J. (1996), "Help from the deep: the potential of ocean‐based response to disaster", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/09653569610121204

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1996, MCB UP Limited

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