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Education and Disaster Risk Reduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Geert Seynaeve
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 309 - 313
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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