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Engineering transportation lifelines

New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when thinking of state-of-the-art transportation lifeline engineering. Nonetheless, I think it is time to consider New Zealand as being one of the countries at the very forefront.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing
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A typology of crises
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application
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Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, r[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risky cities - want to work there?
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Transport infrastructure resilience
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from HERE and THERE
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Suites - what suites?
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