Mobilizing information and communications technologies for effective disaster warning: Lessons from the 2004 tsunami

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 731-747

  Samarajiva, Rohan ^a,b,c  

^a LIRNEasia ^*  (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^c TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Disaster alerts; Disaster warnings; Governance; Hazard detection and monitoring; Indian Ocean; Information and communication technologies; Sri Lanka tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144496584     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805058159     Document Type: Review

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