Building resilient communities through empowering women with information and communication technologies: A Pakistan case study

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 82-96

  Khalafzai, Arshad Khan ^a   Nirupama, Niru ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disaster risk reduction; Information and communication technologies; Resilient communities; Sustainability; Women empowerment

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS;

CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPING NATIONS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; RURAL REGIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; WOMEN EMPOWERMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84856790267     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3010082     Document Type: Article

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