Disaster recovery as translational applied sociology: Transforming chronic community distress

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-157

  Picou, J Steven ^a  

^a Universtiy of South Alabama   (United States)

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