Expecting the unexpected: Field research in post-disaster settings

Natural Hazards

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 805-828

  Mukherji, Anuradha ^b   Ganapati, N Emel ^a   Rahill, Guitele ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Disaster; Fieldwork; Haiti; India; Japan; Research

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FIELDWORK; LAND USE CHANGE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HAITI; INDIA; JAPAN;

POLYOMMATINAE;

EID: 84905377176     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1105-8     Document Type: Article

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