Adaptive responses and asset strategies: The experience of rural micro-firms and Foot and Mouth Disease

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-243

  Phillipson, Jeremy ^a   Bennett, Katy ^a   Lowe, Philip ^a   Raley, Marian ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping responses; Foot and Mouth Disease; Rural micro businesses

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642327757     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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