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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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Published in:Geographical Journal Vol. 179; no. 3; pp. 272 - 278
Main Authors: Gomez, Christopher, Hart, Deirdre E
Format: Opinion
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2013
Subjects:
Hazard mitigation
Scholarly peer review
Sendai Earthquake, Japan, 2011
Christchurch Earthquake, N.Z., 2011
Seismological research
Scholarly communication
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost