'It'll never happen to me': understanding public awareness of local flood risk.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Disasters. The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management

• Publication date

  2008-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Geography, Environmental Science, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01036.xPMID 18380852
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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