Opinion Paper

Post-disaster research: Is there gold worth the rush?

JC Gaillard, Christopher Gomez
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies | Vol 7, No 1 | a120 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v7i1.120 | © 2015 JC Gaillard, Christopher Gomez | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 February 2014 | Published: 30 April 2015

About the author(s)

JC Gaillard, School of Environment, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Christopher Gomez, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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Keywords

Research; Post-Disaster; Ethics; Approach

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