Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-154

  Rigg, Jonathan ^a   Grundy Warr, Carl ^b   Law, Lisa ^c   Tan Mullins, May ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Tsunami footprints'; Recovery transitions; Resilience; Thailand; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; RESILIENCE; TSUNAMI EVENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 47949090713     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2008.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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