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Mapping the topography of scholarship

From: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship's Hidden Terrain

"Trapped in disciplinary valleys, surrounded by dense forests of information, researchers have a hard time seeing a lot of scholarship that might be relevant to their work, especially if it's not published in the places they already know to look."

Can disasters be prevented?

From United Nations University: WorldRiskReport 2011

"The WorldRiskReport 2011 helps to evaluate the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards. Using world maps to visualize, it shows on the one hand where the probability of a natural hazard to occur is particularly high; on the other hand it is shown in which countries the population can cope with these events especially good or bad."