Inhabiting a risky earth: The Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 and its impacts

Anthropology Today

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-9

  Lund, Katrín Anna ^a   Benediktsson, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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EID: 79551611277     PISSN: 0268540X     EISSN: 14678322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2011.00781.x     Document Type: Article

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