How women's concerns are shaped in community-based disaster risk management in Bangladesh

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-78

  Ikeda, Keiko ^a,b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Disaster management; Gender; Local elite; Participation

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GENDER ROLE; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; WOMENS ORGANIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 59849104778     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930802624679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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