Like a Fish Out of Water: Reconsidering Disaster Recovery and the Role of Place and Social Capital in Community Disaster Resilience

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 395-411

  Cox, Robin S ^a   Perry, Karen Marie Elah ^b  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Justice Institute of British Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community disaster resilience; Disaster; Ethnography; Place; Social capital; Trauma recovery

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISASTER; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80855128767     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-011-9427-0     Document Type: Article

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