Migration Amidst Social-Ecological Regime Shift: The Search for Stability in Garífuna Villages of Northern Honduras

Human Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 583-596

  Wrathall, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Displacement; Environmental migration; Flooding; Regime shift; Social ecological systems Honduras

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FLOODING; FRAGMENTATION; MIGRATION;

HONDURAS;

EID: 84864546284     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9501-8     Document Type: Article

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