Rural women, displacement and the three gorges project

Development and Change

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 711-734

  Tan, Yan ^a   Hugo, Graeme ^b,c   Potter, Lesley ^d  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b National Centre for Social Applications of GIS   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; DISPLACEMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES;

EID: 28244445918     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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