Citizen Science: Reducing Risk and Building Resilience to Natural Hazards
- ISBN-10
- 2889634019
- ISBN-13
- 9782889634019
- Series
- Citizen Science
- Pages
- 188
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-01-17
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Authors
- Wei Liu, David M. Hannah, Jonathan D. Paul
Description
In 2016, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (Unisdr) conducted an international conference to discuss the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk ...
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