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Introduction to Special Issue on The Caribbean after Irma and Maria: Climate, Development & the Post-Hurricane Context

Jeff Popke

Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA

E-mail Address: popkee@ecu.edu

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Kevon Rhiney

Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

E-mail Address: kr558@geography.rutgers.edu

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737619020019Cited by:20 (Source: Crossref)

This Special Issue is split across two issues in Journal of Extreme Events, Vol. 5, No. 4 (December 2018) and Vol. 6 No. 1 (March 2019).

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