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  1. Department of Security, Fire, and Emergency Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, NY, USA

    Hung-Lung Wei

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    Marie-Helen Maras

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Wei, HL. (2019). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Emergency Management. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_13-1

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