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Becoming Infrastructure: Integrating Citizen Science into Disaster Response and Prevention

By: Gwen Ottinger  
Open Access
|May 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.409 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 17, 2021
Accepted on: Oct 5, 2021
Published on: May 19, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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