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Volume 5, Issue 3
1 August 1996
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Research Article| August 01 1996

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

Joseph Scanlon
Joseph Scanlon
Director, Emergency Communications Research Unit, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6100
Print ISSN: 0965-3562
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal (1996) 5 (3): 16–23.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09653569610121204

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.

Keywords:
Canada, Contingency planning, Disaster management, Disaster recovery, Marine transport, Response flexibility
© MCB UP Limited
1996
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