About bridges and bonds: Community responses to the 2000 floods in Mabalane District, Mozambique

Economic Outlook

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 234-255

  Brouwer, Roland ^a   Nhassengo, Joel ^b  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^b Ministry of Agric/Rural Devmt   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Floods; Gender; Livelihoods; Local mitigation; Mozambique; Social capital

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISASTER RELIEF; FLOOD DAMAGE; SOCIAL CAPITAL; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOOD; MITIGATION;

AFRICA; GAZA; MABALANE; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BOS TAURUS;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; HUMAN; MOZAMBIQUE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MOZAMBIQUE; NATURAL DISASTERS; RESCUE WORK; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 33646492845     PISSN: 0140489X     EISSN: 14680319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2006.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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