'It came up to here': Learning from children's flood narratives

Children's Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-150

  Walker, Marion ^a   Whittle, Rebecca ^a   Medd, Will ^a   Burningham, Kate ^b   Moran Ellis, Jo ^b   Tapsell, Sue ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

flood recovery; flood affected children; Hull floods; resilience; storyboard methodologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860337453     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2012.667916     Document Type: Article

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