Living in a tinderbox: wildfire risk perceptions and mitigating behaviours

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  International Journal of Wildland Fire

• Publication date

  2013-09-19

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1071/WF12093
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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