From individuals to networks: Unfolding complex poverty in rural Ireland

Irish Geography

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-38

  Shubin, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ireland; Networks; Poverty; Rural

Indexed keywords

MARGINALIZATION; POVERTY; RURAL SOCIETY; VILLAGE;

CONNACHT; CONNEMARA; COUNTY GALWAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548702912     PISSN: 00750778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00750770709555885     Document Type: Article

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