Community organizing for post-disaster social development: Locating social work

International Social Work

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-333

  Pyles, Loretta ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community development; Community organizing; Disaster; Hurricane Katrina; Social development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147125337     PISSN: 00208728     EISSN: 14617234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020872807076044     Document Type: Article

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