Cultural resilience-The roles of cultural traditions in sustaining rural livelihoods: A case study from rural Kandyan villages in central Sri Lanka

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1080-1100

  Daskon, Chandima Dilhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Culture; Kandy; Livelihoods; Resilience; Rural communities; Sri lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860148395     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2041080     Document Type: Article

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