Disaster gold rushes, sophisms and academic neocolonialism: comments on 'Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North'.

After the 2004 events in the Indian Ocean and, again, after the 2011 Tōhoku catastrophe, the number of scientific publications on tsunami topics doubled in the subsequent 2 years. Such mass information has the potential to drive major improvements in tsunami disaster mitigation. Unfortunately, howev...

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Publicado en:	Geographical Journal Vol. 179; no. 3; pp. 272 - 278
Autores principales:	Gomez, Christopher, Hart, Deirdre E
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2013
Materias:	Hazard mitigation Scholarly peer review Sendai Earthquake, Japan, 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, N.Z., 2011 Seismological research Scholarly communication
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost