Economic Impacts of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Kajitani, Yoshio ^a   Chang, Stephanie E ^b   Tatano, Hirokazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BUDGET CONTROL; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS; TOURISM; TSUNAMIS;

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; SUPPLY-CHAIN DISRUPTIONS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COST ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TOURISM; TRADE FLOW; TSUNAMI;

CHUGOKU; HONSHU; JAPAN; OKI ISLANDS; SHIMANE; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877996572     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.4000108     Document Type: Review

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