Gender, vulnerability, and the experts: Responding to the Maldives tsunami

Development and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 843-864

  Fulu, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ISSUE; GENDER RELATIONS; TSUNAMI; VULNERABILITY; WOMENS STATUS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MALDIVES;

EID: 36348986733     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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