Resilience and well-being of small inland communities: Community assets as key determinants

Rural Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 326-339

  Maybery, Darry ^a   Pope, Rodney ^b   Hodgins, Gene ^b   Hitchenor, Yvonne ^c   Shepherd, Amanda ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c North East Riverina Rural Counselling Service ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Assets; Community; Resilience; Resources; Rural; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650910539     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.19.4.326     Document Type: Article

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