A plague upon their houses: Revelations of the foot and mouth disease epidemic for business households

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-284

  Bennett, Katy ^a   Phillipson, Jeremy ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3342924004     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2004.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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